The bare-hand artist Sharryn Jenkinson has a passion for big, awe-inspiring Skys.
Born in 1969, Sharryn’s influences began with the flat plains and vast skies of her birthplace Dimboola, Victoria.

She has carried these impressions of the Wimmera for over fifty years and added to these vivid memories by extensive travel all over the continents.

My paintings have become a part of all these memories, a Turner sky over Venice being etched solidly in my brain along with the more humble yet just as breathtaking storms over canola crops on my family farm.
The atmosphere and elemental feel of these memories are freely expressed through my hands using the flexibility and texture of oil paint.

I am a tactile person, a tactile artist. I trained as a Myotherapist, so using my hands was just a natural progression pushed by the fact I had a thumb reconstruction and couldn’t hold a brush anyway.