Sharon Crider is known for her water-based media paintings and her atypical use of paint.

Using modern acrylic mediums, embedding paint with filler, and blending unusual mixtures, she creates landscapes with an almost 3-dimensional impasto-like technique.

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This innovative acrylic process defines a modern interpretation of the Impressionist Movement wherein the elements of nature appear to reach out from the canvas to create a relationship with the viewer.

The dense clouds, the chunky bark-covered trees, the sandy river banks all seem to extend an invitation to the viewer to “step on in” and “touch.”

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Ms. Crider currently works in small limited series of paintings that form a recurring theme.