Interview with:Daune Sheri [daunesheri]
ART
 | What do you do? How do you define yourself as an artist? I create realistic portraits using traditional medium such as graphite pencil, colored pencil, pastel and pen & ink, placing a stong emphasis on child portraits and pet portraits.
I would define myself as a realist of portrait art alluding to a poignant perspective both in compositional simplicity and strength of purpose. I would define my work as emotive realism, characterized as a style of art evoking a passionate response, however subtle. |
| What is your message? I would like to hope my message is one of emotional awakening, to respond to or to identify with one another the importance of "being"...
I would hope there is a consistent strength to my work that involves a level of importance in both portrayal and composition that opens the door to a memory or a mood the viewer can identify with. |
| Your biography in four lines. Daune Sheri offers an acute awareness to the discipline of portraiture.
Her studies are executed in black and white, with the use of the traditional medium graphite pencil and pen and ink which lend a heightened realistic approach, thus creating a visually strong rendition with the end result being an aesthetic fine detailed interpretation of the subject.
Through self-expression, she exposes the profound sensibilities of life and impresses on the mind portraits that are both evocative and contemplative. Her portraits are meant to engage the viewer's attention and haunt one's thoughts so as to allow them a glimpse beyond the surface of her subject. |
| Do you upload your work to the web? If so, where could we see it? |
| How is an idea born? For you, what is inspiration? An idea is born out of a familiarization of the basic and fundamental truth inside all of us. I use, what I think to be, a type of filter of what I feel inside myself and what I create on paper.
My inspiration basically is "life": the laughter, the joy, the sadness, the hurt, the anguish... what makes all of us connected... what makes us not very different from one another at all. |
| What role does technology play in your creative process? Technology plays a great role for me personally because I work closely with the use of photographs, taken either by myself or through another's eyes. The new age of technology allows for wonderful captures from a camera that can then be resources for future work. |
| What is art? I read somewhere that, "art is anything that reminds you to stay alive". Those words define exactly what "art" is to me... |
| When do you get your best ideas? My best ideas come in the dark, when everyone else is sleeping...that is when ideas come to me. |
| How do you evaluate whether an idea is good or not? I don't necessarily know whether an idea is good or not. If it is personal to me and represents an importance in someone else's life, then I would feel good about the project. |
| When and how did you begin to see yourself as an artist? Not being professionally schooled in the arts, I don't begin to remember when I first saw myself as an artist, I think it just was... |
| Why do so many artists and creators have such volatile personalities? I am a very grounded person with strong emotions so I think it depends on the artist or creator.
I do feel, with some merit, that creators tend to use the right side of their brain more often than non-creative individuals. Right brain users tend to be more visual and intuitive while left brain users tend to be more verbal and logical. Thus rather than logically examine a situation, an artist might expressively react. |
| Do you consider yourself postmodern? No. |
| How should a work of art be evaluated? I don't know that it can. To evaluate a piece of artwork would entail each work to be of the same media, texture, tone, hue, mood, etc. That, however can never be done because no single person can create the sameness on every level.
One might have a personal opinion on a piece of work... I feel an appreciation on the strength of soul and integrity and balance and passion... I suppose appreciation would be a better word than evaluation... |
| Must an artist reinvent him/herself everyday? I feel an artist has an individual look that makes his/her work identifiable. I don't feel "this" can be reinvented because it is, in part, the artist... However, I do feel by continuing to create art, by the laws of discipline, an artist's work is ever evolving. |
| Which artists do you admire and how do they influence your work? There are too many to list. Artists I have met or had the honor of viewing their work, I admire on some level and on that same level feel have been influenced by. |
| What do you think about public funding for the arts? I think public funding is important. |
| Is art necessary? Yes, without a doubt art is a necessary and vital part of life. Art is everything around us... it is tangible, visual, audible... sculpture, dance, portraiture, photography, painting, graffitti, rap, opera, orchestra... |
| Does it pain you to let go of a piece you have sold? Yes. It is as personal as if someone has taken a piece of me each time one of my portraits is sold. |
| Is a work of art purchased, or is it better said, that it is the artist who is bought? Both. I feel a part of the artist is bought with each piece of work purchased. It is that personal. |
| In art, there is no guide. How do you know what the next step is? No, there is no literal guide. I do, nonetheless believe that there is an abstract guide that the artist creates through the knowledge and insight gained by working and reworking each new piece of art... learning from the one before...
I suppose that is how I would know what the next step is... by the work of art before and the work of art before that... |
| How do you feel about the fact that the pieces exhibited in contemporary art museums are often of artists already deceased? I feel there is a something to be learned from all those before us. |
| What role have the figures of art dealer, gallery owners, representatives, and intermediaries in general played in your career? Little, if none at all. |
| What types of jobs do you usually do? I work on commission basis creating portraits of children and pets.
My heart is full when I base my work on children. There is a feeling I have never outgrown, that I honestly think will be with me until my last breath. My involvement with animals has always been a crucial part of my growth as an individual. Both have allowed me to appreciate the importance of life.
I have had the joy of creating a portrait of a newborn baby, the thrill of creating a portrait of a horse in motion, the heartbreak of creating a portrait in remembrance of...
Several of my portraits are jobs unto myself, that are a private collection not commissioned, that represent specific causes such as domestic violence, homeless children, runaways, tributes in honor of... |
| Which of your jobs or tasks do you most enjoy? I enjoy the most insignificant and unremarkable details involved in portraiture. |
| Which websites do you frequently visit? |
| What advice would you give to those just beginning? Stay true to yourself. Be open to suggestion, learn from others but never loose who you are in the process... |
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Daune Sheri
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