TITLE

Golden Sunrise

ARTIST

Cheryll Anderson

CREATED

August 23, 2023

LOCATION

Inside McAllen Nature Center

ABOUT THIS PIECE

Some flora and fauna of the RGV and common to this park area and resaca were included:

Javelina, indigo snake, Egret, horned lizard, egrets in flight, prickly pear cactus. I wanted to give it a feeling of sunrise with the intense yellow and orange.  - Cheryll Anderson

ABOUT THIS ARTIST

I am Cheryll Anderson of Edinburg TX, an Arkansas transplant of 13 years to the RGV with a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. I have been an artist most of my life but the "time of Covid" gave me a vision for mural painting and a new lust for life. I will paint on wood, cement, metal canvas... you name it! The most interesting work I have done recently has not been put on a wall yet. 

I love doing work that is intensely researched, methodically planned and seemingly complex. My emotional pull to the subject keeps me interested and motivated to do my best work. I love working with local flora and fauna or local history as my content. Color study and color mixing are some of my favorite aspects of artmaking. I think of myself as more of a collage artist than a painter, due to the technological aspects of the mural design process. I love doing public funded accessible art.