Occasionally a commission customer has a colour palette in mind, but often Sharon creates one according to how she feels led. And then comes the wetting of the paper, (Sharon usually creates wet on wet watercolour) and so ensues the exciting bit… on goes the paint!

Each uniquely individual painting takes a couple of days to complete because the foundational layer of watercolour paint must be completely dry before adding the ink abstract illustrations. The shapes created by the watercolour bloom lead Sharon as she imagines abstract plants, flowers, and forms. After the piece is illustrated, Sharon goes back in again and adds more colour and some metallic ink to the places that seem to need it. The final step is to add the words (although some paintings don’t have any script added.)

You will notice that there is almost always white space in Sharon’s pieces. The space is an intentional step to symbolically leave space for God to speak in and through the finished work.