YVP: Sharon Hardin

Yadkin • Valley PEOPLE

Sharon Hardin is a WinstonSalem resident and has been painting with watercolor for the past three decades. Her work has been exhibited locally, regionally and nationally as well as internationally. Hardin has worked as an artist-in-Residence and an Arts Educator with local and state Arts Councils in Illinois, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

Selected to jury and curate exhibitions on local, regional and national level, Hardin has participated on juries of selection for the Georgia Arts Council, Winston-Salem Arts Council and Piedmont Craftsman, among others. She is a past visiting Artist and instructor of design at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Director of the Davis Gallery at Sawtooth School for Visual Set, as well as Drawing and Design instructor at Salem College.

Hardin will have an exhibition at the Welborn Gallery in the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center in Yadkinville November 3 through December 23.

Called “Observations and Fantasies." You are invited to join the opening reception on November 3, 2022 from 5 to 7p.

This organic watercolor exhibition will explore a visual language through forms inspired by nature, experience and imagination. Hardin’s paintings are created using transparent watercolor in a traditional manner—no white or black pigment. Some works contain the additional elements of embroidery thread or watercolor pencil.

Subject matter includes mandala imagery, moon influenced creation theories, circular energy and natural phases.

Yadkin Cultural Arts Center, Welborn Gallery, at 226 E. Main St,, Yadkinville, NC 27055, M-F 9:30a to 4:30p. info@yadkinarts.org or 336-679-2941.