Where The Photograph
Becomes Fine Art
Where The Photograph
Becomes Fine Art

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Where The Photograph
Becomes Fine Art
Where The Photograph
Becomes Fine Art


Not everything that defines a person can be captured in a photograph. A true portrait reaches
beyond likeness, to the quiet in someone's
eyes, the tilt of a glance, the set of the mouth or the presence a person carries into a room.
This kind of seeing isn't something a camera
can do on its own, it comes from years spent
painting on canvas, le
Not everything that defines a person can be captured in a photograph. A true portrait reaches
beyond likeness, to the quiet in someone's
eyes, the tilt of a glance, the set of the mouth or the presence a person carries into a room.
This kind of seeing isn't something a camera
can do on its own, it comes from years spent
painting on canvas, learning to study a face slowly,
before ever touching a brush to it. Even
now, that training shapes every portrait I create, guiding what I choose to bring forward
and what I let fall into the background.
What emerges is more than a photograph, a
portrait that holds what a photograph alone
could never see.

When I look at a photograph, I see a blank canvas,
an invitation to look closer, beneath first impressions to notice what has been left unsaid.
I work digitally now, forming each portrait through composition, color, light and atmosphere until its mood and character surface.
The photograph is just the beginning. Your portrait is shaped intu
When I look at a photograph, I see a blank canvas,
an invitation to look closer, beneath first impressions to notice what has been left unsaid.
I work digitally now, forming each portrait through composition, color, light and atmosphere until its mood and character surface.
The photograph is just the beginning. Your portrait is shaped intuitively, brushstroke
by brushstroke, into something uniquely
and entirely its own.

A private commission is created especially for you, made to live in your home, or to be gifted to someone you love.
Each portrait is created around the story of the person it honors, the relationships, the moments worth remembering, so that
no two commissions are ever alike.
Finished portraits are presented as giclee prints
on fine art paper,
A private commission is created especially for you, made to live in your home, or to be gifted to someone you love.
Each portrait is created around the story of the person it honors, the relationships, the moments worth remembering, so that
no two commissions are ever alike.
Finished portraits are presented as giclee prints
on fine art paper, or mounted on gallery-wrapped
canvas.
Begin Your Private Commission
Share your photograph, and I will bring to life
a portrait meant to be lived with and cherished for a lifetime.
To Begin, Contact:
Sharon Marantz Walsh
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