Cheryl Warrick is a painter based in Boston. She’s best known for her quilt like and richly colored paintings that explore the journeys of wisdom. Her work can be found in several collections including, Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, The Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI, Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia, PA, Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA Harpo Productions, Chicago, Il, Lucent Technologies, New York, NY, and Embassy Suites Hotel, Philadelphia, PA. In her work Cheryl includes proverbs, folk wisdom, landscapes and symbols. Her works invite the viewer to open doors and enjoy visual relationships in the paintings and discover their meaning. Cheryl believes that art has a way of transforming, changing and healing. She looks for beauty and inspiration in the ordinary – bits rusted metal, layers of weather painted, sidewalk cracks, etc.
She lives across the street from the Arnold Arboretum and visits there daily. Her mixed media art are layered with text, found papers and textures to create a feeling of deep space for those who view her art to travel through. She loves acrylics because it dries faster and therefore allows her to work in layers. She paints from an intuitive process and her landscapes are invented from what she refers to as “internal knowing.” Cheryl has a feeling that people know these landscapes because they are rooted in their collective unconscious. When she’s not in her studio painting, she can be found working as a freelance commercial artist.
