Cheryl A. Curran born 1956, is a contemporary representational oil painter who lives and works on the south shore of Massachusetts. Inspired by nature and always the adventure, she enjoys combining travel with her passion, plein air landscape painting.

Over the last ten years she has spent considerable time devoted to self-study, art classes and workshops with a commitment to be a better artist.

Cheryl’s academic training has been “en plein air”, direct painting from life and study of the masters. A member of North River Arts Society in Marshfield, Ma., she is grateful to teachers: Diane P. Miller, Sue Charles, Margaret McWethy, Jody Regan, Clement Micarelli for their traditional and challenging methods. She has also taken workshops with Plein Air of America painters, Charles Sovek, Kenn Backhaus, Scott Christensen. Cheryl continues to further her education with workshop's each year, she recently had the pleasure of studying with artists Kathleen Dunphy and Colin Page.

Artist Statement: "My paintings are a meditation of my response to a scene, whether a landscape, still life, or people interacting. I attempt to convey my emotions and evoke mood with color, line and form, in realism, honesty, and spirit. The aim is to bring enough life into the painting to allow the viewer to enter and experience his own meditation; this communication is my artistic vision."