Cheryn Prentice-Holstead

medium: graphic art

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Calla Nirvana 2007 Graphic art	First Dance 2009 Graphic art	Heartfull Lily 2009 Graphic art
Iris Arabesque 2007 Graphic art	Iris Embrace 2008 Graphic art	Iris Salute 2007 Graphic art
Last Dance 2009 Graphic art	Nativity Gaze 2007 Graphic art	Star Dust-3 2008 Graphic art
Star Dust 2008 Graphic art

Contact information
Artist resides in: Green Bay, WI
Email Address: taurusrisingart@new.rr.com
Web site: www.taurusrisingart.com/

Artist statement
I create original charcoal drawings of flowers on acid free paper. In using the combination of charcoal sticks and pencils, erasers and blending tools, I am able to achieve the darkest blacks, the brightest highlights and every shade in between. By doing this, I hope that my flowers will appear as though they are popping off the page. As I intermittently travel between darkening and lightening, an image begins to emerge as though out of the ashes. Like the ever changing patterns of the kaleidoscope, nature changes. It unfolds and the moment is gone. Before I am finished with the process, I have witnessed the life and death of a flower. As you look at my drawings I hope you will appreciate the precious moment that exists in one single flower.

Biography
Cheryn Prentice-Holstead was born in Barstow, Calif., in 1959, the fourth of seven children and now lives in Green Bay, Wis. Her formal studies began in 1979 at the University of Wisconsin, in Commercial Art. She continued studies at UW-Oshkosh in 1981. She later attended UW-Green Bay from 1992 through 1995 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and The Arts.

In 1994, while in school, Cheryn began creating large drawings of flowers in charcoal which seem to take on a personality of their own, posing gracefully, sensually and confidently in the spot light. Soon she began to work from her home. Presently her work resides in over 15 private collections and at the UW-Green Bay Union Permanent Art collection. Recently she has exhibited in eight galleries including Flanders Contemporary Art and Gallery 13 in Minneapolis, Minn., and Chalk Farm Gallery in Santa Fe, N. Mex.