Through the Window

Acrylic, graphite and colour pencil on wood panel
36cm x 28cm

Sharron Astbury-Petit was born in Wickersley, Yorkshire and works from her studio in Leeds.

Her paintings are characterized by experimentation and a combining of media to better explore different themes, interweaving disciplines to create a personal and evolutive reality. Largely figurative and rich in symbolism, her work seeks to question and to pay homage to the seduction of the intangible.

Member of Leeds Fine Artists, associate member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art, associate member of the Société des Artistes Français (medal winner 2011 Paris Salon), and member of the Société du Salon d’Automne de Paris.

She exhibits both nationally (including as a non-member of the New English Art Club (prize winner 2018), Royal Society of British Artists and Society of Women Artists) and internationally (Japan, Denmark, China, Portugal, France, Belgium).

Her work has been awarded 20 art prizes and 4 medals.

Through the Window is a portrait is of the artist’s youngest daughter and was created under lockdown from sketches made and photographs taken during a sitting at Lulu-Rose’s home in France just before the start of the pandemic. Though they were not able to see each other for a long time after that day, working on this portrait helped the artist to keep her daughter close through this difficult period.