Biography

Sherry Lynn Ratner —Artist

A painter, printmaker and writer with a diversified background, Sherry Lynn Ratner has studied abstract as well as academic art with well-known masters. Her images vary from mystic and transcendental symbolic icons to filtered realism with a touch of abstraction. She has taught drawing and painting for over 10 years; in her native New York City, Pennsylvania and Arizona at NAU. She is currently a resident in Sedona, AZ and taught at the Sedona Art Center and Yavapai College.

Her undergraduate work at NYU was where she studied under Milton Resnick. In the 1980’s Ms. Ratner fell in love with the art of Monoprint while completing her Graduate Degree at New York’s Columbia University, and has continued to explore this technique in such mediums as oils with wax, acrylics and watercolors. At the National Academy School of Fine Arts she was inspired by masters such as Harvey Dinnerstein.

After a beloved teacher lost her life to cancer Sherry began to study healing and trained in a mystery school for 3 years learning techniques such as Reiki and Chinese Shiatsu. She lost her vision in first the left and then the right eyes and it was after surgery to restore her eyesight that her art began to focus on the details of the real world and to love the immediate reality of God’s creatures. During recovery she painted sheep, cats, and flowers which later merged with angels and icons of India and China. Her image “Peace” was created for the SPCA in Pennsylvania and was published as a card in 1996.

Sherry Lynn Ratner continues to investigate symbols, icons and the beauties of nature through her art. Her work has been shown in Soho, along the east coast and in Arizona. When she sits in her studio, she never knows what imagery the muse will bring…that is the wonderful mystery of creating.