Small Studio Works | Sherry Mason

• From Grandfather Mountain

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 8 x 1/8. An elevated perspective reveals the rhythm and structure of the mountain terrain below Grandfather Mountain. I started this rendering with a brunaille underpainting during the Blowing Rock Plein…

• Late Autumn Beauty

  Oil, Belgian linen panel, 9 x 12 x 0.125. Received Honorable Mention in the January 2026, Plein Air Salon Competition. Autumn, to an artist, is a season that first shouts in color and then slowly whispers in light. By t…

• The Sound of Rushing Waters

  Oil, Linen, 12 x 9 x 1/8. Joe and I decided to make a couple of plein air stops to paint when we traveled to the Bascom Center for Visual Arts in Highlands, NC to deliver my juried painting, "A New Dream" for the PLACE…

• A New Dream

  Oil, Linen, 9 x 12 x 1/8. A forward-looking scene that reflects transition, hope, and the pull of what lies ahead. Sometimes our plans get derailed for heartbreaking reasons that we can't explain. Loss in all its forms…

• Meditations on the Nolichucky River

  Oil, Panel, 12 x 9 x 1/8. I paint en plein air with several other artists on Mondays and I started this rendering August 2022. During the holidays I decided to finish it and when I looked up the reference photos, I noti…

• The Fly Fisherman's Ballet

  Oil, Linen, 12" x 12" x 1/8". Painting en plein air at Weir Dam one morning with some other artists, I was inspired to capture all the lightly fused colors in the mist rising over the South Holston River as the sun rose…

• Sundance at Carrigan Farms

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12 x 1/8. I was drawn by the chartreuse colored grasses that were juxtaposed to some auburn colored bulrushes in the corner of this pond on Carrigan Farms. The sunlight provided as it were, a sun dance i…

• Undercurrent Mystery

  Oil, Panel, 12 x 9 x 1/8. This painting was painted on location at Peace Valley KOA, Happy Valley Road in Murphy, NC over two separate days one week in March, 2024. I was immediately drawn to the barn and distant mounta…

• Memory Lane

  Oil, Panel, 12 x 9 x 1/8. “Memory Lane” was captured en plein air at Bradford Farmer's Market in Huntersville, NC and finished in the studio. The little worn out road meandered quietly to the back of the property bringi…