Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that Sheri Emerson has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.

Sheri Emerson is a Tempe, Arizona based photographer and photo artist. She creates superb landscape and portrait photographs.  Sheri also creates digital art.  Sheri was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists of the gallery’s recent Solo Art Exhibition Series #9. The placement in this competition qualified her photography to be showcased in this feature.

Sheri’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to over 350+ major news outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her photoart in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.

Below are Sheri’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 images that were submitted to this competition.

Artist Biography:

Sheri Emerson is an international award-winning photographer and digital artist who splits her time between her homes in Tempe, Arizona and Labrador, Canada. She travels all over North America, incorporating her landscape photography into her digital art pieces.

Sheri’s work has been exhibited at the Heaven Art Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Pennsylvania Center for Photography, and the Blank Wall Gallery in Athens, Greece. She has had six top-ten finishes in the Light, Space and Time competitions in the last year, and has won numerous Best in Show and Judges Choice awards in competitions such as FusionArt and Contemporary Art Gallery Online.

Her work has also appeared in Living the Photo Artistic Life Magazine, Readers' Digest "Our Canada" magazine, Photoshop Creative UK, A5 Magazine, Fine Eye Magazine and Conceptual Magazine. She won her first art contest at the grand old age of five. Sheri can be found most days either with camera in hand, shooting her next subject, or furiously working in Photoshop putting the finishing touches on her work.

Artist Statement:

Art is something that is intensely personal. When I am creating a new art piece, I am putting a piece of my soul out there for all to see. I try to tell a story with my work - it's not enough to just create a "pretty picture." Art should make you think, make you wonder, make you feel something. It should be an experience, just as it is an experience for the artist to create that piece. That need to create, that desire to say what is in one's soul...that is what drives the artist.

I like to portray strong women in my work, women who look as though nothing will hold them back, that they can do the impossible. I know the joy of flying after having my own wings clipped for so long, and my dearest hope is to reach someone who takes that little spark of the imagination she sees in my work, turns it to her own life, and makes it just a bit better than it was yesterday.  Sheri’s website http://www.sheriemerson.com