Sherry Lawler Sparks, an Orange County, California-based, classically trained artist whose career spans more than 30 years, possesses an uncanny ability to duplicate famous styles, techniques and works. Thanks to an early childhood environment rich in the arts and science, and substantial college-level and private lessons, Sparks can explore a personal interpretation readily apparent in her original oils and watercolors.
A lifetime spent analyzing and practicing has shaped Sparks’ keen sense of vision while acquiring experience in a vast array of media. Currently, she works as a fine & mural artist, and a graphic artist for commercial and residential clientele.
Milestones
Sparks, while working with the Woniga Nagi Native American pottery company, created hand-carved, hand-painted cameos that quickly turned up in public and private permanent collections across the United States. One cameo adorns a water vessel on exhibit in the Los Angeles Indian Center’s permanent collection.
Sparks has shown her work in prominent OC shows, including Art-A-Fair and Festival of the Arts, both in Laguna Beach. Her work has been displayed at the Surf City Festival and at the Art Center Gallery in Huntington Beach, as well as the former Gallery by the Sea on the Redondo Beach Pier.
Sparks’ reach extends to the Internet, where she designs, develops and manages several websites, including her own. She is cofounder of the ARTFaces/ARTPlaces websites and was director, creator and webmaster of the award-wining www.artfaces.com/artkids.
A current client, the popular and innovative Lazy Dog Café, realized at once she possessed the ability to bring a strong identity to their vision. The first of the cafés, owned by the son of a successful OC restaurant entrepreneur and creator of Mimi’s Café, opened in summer 2003; the second opened December 2006 in Torrance, California. The third in Anaheim, California (near The Block); 5 additional locations are in the works within the next two years. The success of her Lazy Dog Café contract paved the way to her new pet portraiture venture; these works can be viewed in the fine art gallery found at:
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Sherry painted a mural for Mesa Grill in Costa Mesa (former Baja Fresh) that is an expansive forty feet wide by five feet tall. The scene is of a coastline and city walk. She has been asked to design another for a second property.
Most recently the artist was part of a team that painted the interior finishes on a newly built residence in Greenwich, CT., for Mrs. Sheindlin, star of the popular court television show 
. Read more on the press page... Also, the artist is on contract with SALI, Inc. designing a logo for their new identity and reformation that will include all facets of the decorative painting spectrum. Sparks assists in the marketing and rebranding campaign.
The Vision, The Future
Sparks’ painting and graphic clientele continues to grow at a precipitous rate, and she constantly strives to achieve new enlightenment for herself and bring innovation to her crafts.
“When I am in my golden years, ready to pass from this place, I don’t want to say that I ‘worked my life away.’ If I can paint for a living, I will never feel like that.”
