Welcome to Quotentials, my first attempt at blogging. My name is Sheryl Lambert.As a 5 year old, I should have seen my destiny as a visual artist when I took my neighbor’s driveway shells, decorated them with crayons, and sold them back to her as “handpainted” home decor. It took nearly 50 years to come to that realization.
After 30 years of encouraging my gifted and talented students to face their fears of failure and meet creativity head-on, I retired. It was time to practice what I had preached for all of those years.
I have always been one to see potential when others may overlook it. For all those years as a teacher, it was in my students. Outside of school, it might have been in a piece of junk I saw beside the road or in a thrift store, or even a house that had seen its better days. “It has potential” became my slogan. At times, that slogan was a little scary to my husband, especially when it was referring to a run down beach “shack” that we have since purchased! That project may have been the turning point for him…He now has a lot of confidence in my ability to see what things can become rather than what they are.
Combining my love of inspirational quotations and my ability to see potential with a desire to paint, Quotentials was born as a decorative painting adventure. As a decorative painter, I have painted murals and quotations to my hearts content. In fact, I just got home from my latest job. I painted the nursery of a friend who is adopting a baby girl from China. What a great time I had doing it. She has been a little stymied over a quotation to add to the mural. She wants to put a Bible verse over the door. Here is a picture of the doorway she wants to embellish. Maybe someone out there can help her with an idea?
Recently I have become enamored with warmglass arts, so more and more of my time is spent in my glass studio (aka my garage). While still enjoying painting and creating unique environments, this rather old “budding artist” is now applying her knowledge of color and design to a new passion, fused glass.
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