Cherie Sikking
Bacardi Limited Biennal at the Bermuda National GalleryBacardi Limited Biennial 2002Artists featured in the Bermuda National Gallery's BiennialsBacardi Ltd.Biennial 1994Biennial 1996Bacardi Biennial 1998Bacardi Ltd Biennial 2000
mushroom cottage cherie sikking

Mushroom Cottage

watercolour
18 x 12 inches

(cat. 58)

Cherie Sikking Bermudian, born October 29 1966


Cherie Sikking
artist statement
I have the guilty luxury of exploring how light pools in a tulip, meanders across soft contours of wet sand or dapples brilliantly up a garden path. I strive to preserve such heart quickening images on paper — a process of anticipation, careful planning, trepidation, layer upon layer of transparent watercolour and increasing confidence and excitement, until an image emerges wichh most closely resembles the initial jolt of joy.

education
1984 Bermuda High School for Girls
1985-86 Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1987 Pennsylvania School of the Arts, Marietta, Pennsylvania

solo exhibitions
1992 Cultural Council of Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, USA, 'Dynamic Botanicals'

selected group exhibitions
1991 Finalist in the Lititz Outdoor Fine Art Show, Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA
1993 Christmas Show, Heritage House Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda
1994 Christmas Show, Heritage House Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda
1995 Heritage House Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda
1996 Heritage House Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda
2000 H.B. Smith Industrial Village Conservancy, New Jersey, USA

commissions
1991-2001 Twenty private Commissions
1992 Designed logo used by Bermuda's Team in the 1992 Olympic Games
1994 Commissioned to paint two watercolours for Bacardi International, Hamilton, Bermuda
1995 Portrait of Bacardi International Building printed as company Christmas card
2002 H.B. Smith Industrial Village Conservancy, New Jersey, USA