16 Jun Sheila Parsons
Sheila Parsons has been a professional artist and workshop instructor since 1976. She owns and operates Sheila Parsons’ Art-Ventures LLC a travel/study painting company which offers classes all across the USA and in many foreign countries.
The daughter of an artist and musician she was always surrounded by art and artists and decided very young that she would be a painter and teacher of painting. She received her in art from the prestigious Pratt Institute in New York and has studied since then with the greats in the watercolor field. Her Mentor, Milford Zornes (1908 – 2008), NA, AWS, NWS tutored her in both painting and living as a traveling artist teacher. Most of her paintings are done on location or from sketches she has done in the field.
She is a signature member of Mid-Southern Watercolorists and her work has been included in Watercolor USA, Mid-Southern WC annual, Texas and Neighbors annual, Oklahoma National and other regional and national shows. She has had over 25 solo exhibitions of her work. Her paintings are in collections of the White House and corporate and private collections throughout the United States, Mexico and Europe.
In 1996, Sheila received the Arkansas Governor’s Award for Outstanding Individual Artist of Arkansas. The fall 2000 issue of Watercolor, an American Artist publication, had an eight page feature article about Sheila and her paintings. Her paintings have been published in several books about watercolor. Sheila received a Lifetime Achievement in the Arts award from Faulkner County (Arkansas) Library in 2011.
She currently lives and works with her husband Richard Talley, three dogs and two cats in her studio home in Conway, Arkansas. She invites you to visit her there or on the web at www.sparsons.com.
