Sheri Peters

1969 Born in Victoria BC

Lives and works in Gibsons, B.C. Canada

 

Exhibitions

2025:

Art Crawl, group show

Group show: Art and Words GPM, Gibsons, B.C.

Group Show Gibsons Public Art Gallery “Present Tense” Gibsons, B.C.

Square Foot show with Julia Veenstra – Juried online show - 30 Canadian artists

Group Show Sechelt Arts Festival, “Friends of the Gallery” Sechelt, B.C.

Gibsons Public Market, Gibsons, BC

2024:

Art Crawl, group show

Group show: Art and Words GPM, Gibsons, B.C.

Group Show Gibsons Public Art Gallery “Present Tense” Gibsons, B.C.

Solo show, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, "The Traveller", Gibsons, B.C.

Group Show Sechelt Arts Festival, “Friends of the Gallery” Sechelt, B.C.

2023:

Art Crawl, group show

Group Show Gibsons Public Art Gallery “Present Tense” Gibsons, B.C.

Tiny Artist Exhibition: Gibsons Public Art Gallery “Swirling Color” Gibsons, B.C.

Gibsons Public Library: “A Natural life in Watercolours” Gibsons, B.C.

2022:

Group Show Gibsons Public Art Gallery “Present Tense” Gibsons, B.C.

Gibsons Public Library: A collection of artworks, Gibsons, B.C.

 

2022 – present: Various medical clinics, restaurants, and public spaces.

 

Education

Mainly a self-taught artist, I have had the opportunity to travel around the world and learn to appreciate various types of art forms. I have seen big beautiful art shows and small creative studios on the backs of the hillside in the poor countries. Art unites us in our spirit of creativity and resilience.  I have been influenced by the artworks of Gustav Klimit, Salvador Dali and MC Escher - the ideas behind the creation of artwork to touch an inner part of the  soul, working within the subconscious mind to create something odd and wonderful.

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I studied watercolor painting under a professional artist while growing up and excelled in all things “Art”. In 2001, I painted a mural in a Guatemalan School. In 2003 I was living in the Cayman Islands and started to have people ask me to paint them things. I used to sit at the feet of an abstract artist and be enthralled for hours as to what was happening on these 60x60 canvases. Between the years of 2005 – 2008 I helped design a very funky artistic Eco lodge in Nicaragua. This allowed me to experiment with 3D art, building things in clay as well as painting. In 2018 I moved back to Canada after being abroad for almost 25 years.

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My artwork took off from drawing, acrylic and watercolor expression into the abstract mixed media form, inspired by nature. This allowed for a lot of experimentation and a deeper understanding of how color affects mood and has a language of its own. While I may start with general idea, my process is guided by intuition as I wait to see where the painting is unfolding. More and more I find myself wanting to paint the essence of something, the feeling behind a particular subject.

 

Press

2025

Painting “On the rocks” featured on the cover of Not an island, spring 2025 edition

Featured in the Coast Reporter (February 7th) – “Nature and Spirit mingle in painters’ vision”

2024

Painting “Mystic raven” featured in the book “Not an Island” fall 2024 edition

Winner of the people’s choice award from SCWS for the painting “Fleeting memories”

2022

Featured on “An Artist in the House” TV show

2009

The Eco Lodge was featured in an international magazine

 

Teaching & Presentations

2025

Abstract layered painting: Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC

Introduction to mixed media: The Community Center (SCRD), Gibsons, BC

Home studio classes (multiple days), Gibsons BC

2024

Creative series workshop with CarolAnne Almquist: Sechelt, BC

Watercolour flowers class: Art & Words festival at Gibsons Public Market, Gibsons, BC

Let’s Create – a series of abstract mixed media workshops: The Arts Building, Gibsons, BC

Introduction to painting acrylic and collage workshop: The Arts Building, Gibsons, BC

Painting abstract mixed media painting: The Arts Building, Gibsons, BC

Introduction to painting watercolour workshop: The Community Center (SCRD), Gibsons, BC

2023

Abstract painting workshops: The Arts Building, Gibsons, BC

Creative expression, an introduction to mixed media: The Arts Building, Gibsons, BC

Art & Abstraction class - Creative Sundays: The Sunshine Coast Arts Council, Sechelt, BC

2022

Introduction to abstract painting & mixed media workshops: The Arts Building, Gibsons, BC

2017

Private lessons, teaching children individually, Ometepe Island, Rivas, Nicaragua

2016

Private lessons, teaching children individually, Ometepe Island, Rivas, Nicaragua