Education: Bachelor in Fine Arts, Concordia University; Major in Commercial Art, Dawson College; studio courses at Bishop's University-Knowlton.

Career: Cheryl Long has been self-employed as a commercial artist for 15 years, during which she has undertaken a wide range of different projects. In the capacity of Illustrator and Art Director, she has produced designs and illustrations for things such as packaging, dishes, children's books and board games, corporate brochures, and pharmaceutical print material, for a number of advertising agencies and commercial art studios.
After moving to the Sutton area of Quebec four years ago, Cheryl began to explore her creative potential free of the constraints imposed by the commercial world. The natural environment inspired her first to produce detailed watercolour and ink drawings, then to explore larger canvases in an acrylic medium. Her subject matter consists of, for the most part, trees, rocks, and forest. In the last six months, she has begun to paint on location, within walking/hiking distance to her home. This experience has been a personal renaissance and become a great passion in her life, profoundly affecting her relationship with nature, and the way that she records this in her paintings.
An active participant of Tour-des-Arts (a local tour of artist's studios) for the last three years, Cheryl has participated in various group exhibitions including: the Art Sutton-Members Exhibition (1998, 2000); Maison Bruck-Gaia: A Woman's Art Show (as co-organizer and exhibitor); and the Frederick Amsden House Contemporary Art Gallery summer 2000 exhibition.

Artist's Statement

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