Pacific Northwest native Sharon Calahan has had a lifelong love for nature and outdoor activities. Her art education in illustration and design led her into a career as an artist in the motion picture feature animation business. As part of Pixar Animation studios for 26 years, she helped create The Good Dinosaur, Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Cars 2, Onward and many more. A star in the field of animation, in 2013 she was admitted to the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers.
Sharon has spent her career studying the effects of light and color to enhance beauty and mood in the film world and has recently endeavored to transfer this knowledge into landscape painting. She loves to hike and paint out of doors, and then to use these field studies as direct inspiration in the studio. She won the Bronze Medal Award at the 2011 Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibition, and has participated in other juried events such as the Sonoma Plein Air Festival, the Napa Valley Art Festival, the Emeryville Art Show, as well as selected gallery shows. Sharon now lives and paints in rural Northeast Oregon.
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Ediza Pond
2024. Oil on linen panel, 8″ x 14″. Painting only: $1,800.
Framed in a No. 1.6—1 3/4″ with 18kt gilt sight edge. Quartersawn white oak with Medieval stain. (Inquire for other frame options).
Painting framed as shown: $2,100.
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Spring Grazing
2023. Oil on panel, 12″ x 24″. Painting only: $3,500. Unframed.
Sierra Headwaters
2016. Oil on board, 11″ x 14.” Painting only: $1,100.
Framed in a 3-1/4” compound quartersawn white oak frame with a 23 kt gilt slip. (Inquire for other frame options.)
Painting framed as shown: $1,650.