Sharron has over 24 years of studio experience as an artist; a full time professional for 14 of those years. During those years she has had numerous one-on-one intensive seminars with skilled professionals with a combined experience of scores of years working in pastel, acrylic, photography, printmaking and other media.

She begins her day with meditation and listens to music as she creates her artwork. The titles of several of her series are named for the music she listens to as she works. The Etta series was inspired by the great Blues singer, Etta James; the Sarah’s Song by Sarah Vaughan, Vivaldi by many of his beautiful compositions. The Ovation and Rhapsody series as well as her other paintings were done while being emotionally moved by these fabulous musical works.

Several of her floral and abstract series are created on 100% archival cotton paper, using gesso and oil pastel or acrylic. First she paints the blank paper with gesso; then the imagery is drawn with oil pastel. Later she places numerous layers of materials, often obscuring (or destroying) the imagery completely. Scrapers and cloths are used to adjust and subtract some of the layers, and in the process the piece takes shape, allowing light to come through the piece, creating dimensionality, texture and interesting abstractions (even when the subject is representational). This layering is often repeated several times until the finished piece emerges.

She states, “I love color and the effect it has on me, and I appreciate that collectors often have a strong emotional response, indicating to me that my artwork communicates something of what I’m feeling and experiencing as I create it”.  The Sarah’s Song and Vivaldi series consist of imagery created using only acrylic on 100% archival cotton paper. This series began as an abstract visual response to the exquisite vocals of Sarah Vaughan. Then the series evolved to include leaf or floral imagery and became the Vivaldi series, expressing nature and its myriad gifts of color and form.  One of her galleries had a one-person show of Sarah’s Songs, and the majority of the pieces on display were sold. A review in a Philadelphia newspaper said, “Most often Bliss presents the viewer with a color field and surface texture that represent the height of artistic manipulation to demonstrate pure color or texture. The oeuvre Bliss presents in this indeed is handsome in its lushness, the density of the colors, reference to gold leaf and faux marble finish in some of the textures and the diptych and triptych arrangements of color evoke centuries and volumes of knowledge. Bliss tempts us with the formal nature of learning here, allowing the simplicity of natural forms and colors of the world around us to lead us to the structure of observation.”

INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTORS

INTERNATIONAL

Atlantis Hotel, Bahamas
Delta Caravelle Hotel, Saigon, Vietnam
Grace Hills Country Club, Nagoya, Japan
Kansai Hotel, Osaka, Japan
Nikko Hotel, Fukuoka, Japan
Park Lane Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia
Ritz Carlton Hotel, St. Thomas, B.W.I.
Ritz Carlton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Shangri-La Hotel, Wuhan, China
Swiss Reamerica, Zurich, Switzerland

COMMISSIONS - CORPORATE (Select)
Cisco, San Jose, California
C.R. Bard, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Informix, Menlo Park, California
Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, California (Several Locations)
Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Mandalay Bay/Four Seasons Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Mills-Peninsula Hospital, San Mateo, California
Marriott Hotel, Portland, Oregon
Nordstrom, (Several Locations)
Sibley Renaissance Hospital, Washington, D. C.
St. John Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
Trammel Crow, Dallas, Texas
Yorkshire Foods, Walnut Creek, California
Xerox Corporation, Rochester, New York

ACCOUNTING AND LAW
American Arbitration, New York, New York
Bregante & Company, CPAs, San Francisco, California
Ernst & Young, Potomac, Maryland, Dallas, Texas, Boston, Massachusetts
Goodwyn, Mills, Cawood, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama
Lauer & Associates, Oakland, California
Litman Gregory, Orinda, California
M. Geller, CPA, New York, New York
Marshall, Dennchey & Warner, Roseland, New Jersey
Middleton, Burns & Davis, Dallas, Texas
Ronald Sarstedt & Associates, Cleveland, Ohio
Peat Marwick, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, San Francisco, California
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran and Arnold, LLP, Sacramento, California
Tullius, Taylor, Sartain & Sartain, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Waller Lansden Dorth & Davis, Nashville, Tennessee

ENTERTAINMENT
Discovery Channel, Potomac, Maryland
CBS-TV, “The Young and the Restless” set, Hollywood, California
San KPLX-KLTF, Dallas, Texas
San Jose Sharks, San Jose, California
Set for the movie “Happiness"
WJTV Channel 4, Miami, Florida

FINANCE
AIG, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
AmSouth Bank, Montgomery, Alabama
Axa Rosenberg Global Services LLC, Orinda, California
Banc One Capital Corporation, Columbus, Ohio
Bank of America, New York, New York
Bank of Walnut Creek, Walnut Creek, California
Bear Stearns, Atlanta, Georgia
Brookehill Equities, New York, New York
CalFed Savings & Loan, Sacramento, California
Capitol One, Seattle, Washington
Charter One Bank, Cleveland, Ohio
Chase Bank, Cleveland, Ohio
Chubb & Son Insurance, Mountain View, California
Civic Bank of Commerce, Walnut Creek, California
European American Bank, New York, New York
Fremont Bank, San Francisco, California
Janus Fund, Kansas City, Missouri
La Salle Banking System, Elmhurst, Illinois
Maple Securities, Jersey City, New Jersey
Merrill Lynch, Pittsburgh, PA, New Orleans, LA, Chicago, IL, Houston, TX, Toledo, OH
Midmark Investments, Inc., Morristown, New Jersey
Mooring Financial Corporation, Potomac, Maryland
National Bank of California, Los Angeles, California
Preferred Pension Planning Corp., Bridgewater, New Jersey
Princeton Insurance, Princeton, New Jersey
Property Resources, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina
Rattikin Title Company, Fort Worth, Texas
Royal Federal Credit Union, Auburn, Alabama
RREEF Funds, Chicago, Illinois
Silicon Valley Bank, San Jose, California
State Street Bank & Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Stonehenge Venture Capital, Columbus, Ohio
Tanner Insurance, Pleasanton, California
U. S. Trust, San Francisco, California
Vanguard Associates, Wilson, North Carolina
Wells Fargo Bank, Beverly Hills, San Francisco and other locations

HOSPITALITY
California Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Four Seasons Hotel, Dallas, Texas
Harrah’s, Reno, Nevada
Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Hyatt Regency, Chicago, Illinois
Legends Hotel & Conference Center, Prattville, Alabama
Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Mandalay Bay/Four Seasons Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Marriott Hotel, San Francisco, California .3 and numerous other locations
Newmark Tower, Seattle, Washington
Ocean Club, Key Biscayne, Florida
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Naples, Florida, St. Thomas, BWI, Puerto Rico
Sheraton Hotel, San Diego, California
Silver Star Hotel, Philadelphia, Mississippi
Trend West Resort, Bellevue, Washington

MEDICAL /HOSPITALS
Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, California
American Medical Association, Parsippany, New Jersey
Bay Park Community Hospital, Oregon, Ohio
City of Hope, Los Angeles, California
Collateral Therapeutics, San Diego, California
DoctorsDoctors Hospital, Augusta, Georgia
Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
Easton Surgery, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D. C.
Harris Methodist Hospital, Dallas, Texas
Inamed Corporation, New York, New York
International Medical News Group, Potomac, Maryland
Jackson Hospital, Montgomery, Alabama
John Muir Hospital, Walnut Creek, California
Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, Atlanta, Georgia, numerous California locations
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida
Mercy Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio
Meridia Hillcrest Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
N. Y. Presbyterian Hospital Breast Center, New York, New York
Occupational Health Center, San Diego, California
Pacific Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
Parkway Medical Center, Miami, Florida
Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas, Texas
Samaritan Hospital, San Jose, California
SBPharma (Division of Schein/Bayer), Parsippany, New Jersey
Scottsdale Hospital Women's Center, Scottsdale, Arizona
Scripps Cardiovascular, San Diego, California
St. Andrew Life Center, Niles, Illinois
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Edgewood, Kentucky
Sutter Delta, Sacramento, California
U.S. HeU. S. Healthcare, N. Y./New Jersey, Executive Offices, Fairfield, New Jersey
Virginia Mason Cancer Institute, Seattle, Washington
White Memorial Hospital, Los Angeles, California

COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY
A D C Telecommunications, Dallas, Texas
Automatic Data Processing, Atlanta, Georgia
Granutec, Inc., Wilson, North Carolina
Hewlett-Packard, San Diego, California
Iomega, San Diego, California
Jones Intercable, Denver, Colorado
Lockheed/Mountain Gate Data Systems, Reno Nevada
Lucent Technologies, Washington, D. C.
Manpower Corporation, San Jose, California
Marconi Instruments, Dallas, Texas
MCI, Denver, Colorado and Dallas, Texas
NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo, California
Nokia, Mountain View, California
Northern Telecom, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Page Net, Glastonbury, Connecticut & Dallas, Texas
Scopus Technology, Emeryville, California
Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, California

OTHER
Adobe Systems, San Jose, California (plus other locations)
Alain Pinel Real Estate, Sacramento, California
Allied Signal Corporation, Toledo, Ohio
Austin Mullins, Raleigh, North Carolina
California State Lottery Corporate Offices, Sacramento, California
Celanese Corporation, Dallas, Texas
Centex Homes, Sacramento, California
City of Thornton, Thornton, Colorado
Dames & Moore, Los Angeles, California
Edward Burger Management Company, Auburn, California
Entercom, Boston, Massachusetts
Exxon, Benicia, California
First Quadrant, Pasadena, California
Florida Power & Light, Miami, Florida
Fujitsu of America, Dallas, Texas
Getthere.Com, Dallas, Texas
Goodwyn, Mills, Cawood, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama
Heritage Property Development, Merced, California
Highwood Properties, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina
Integra, Sacramento, California
La Papillon, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Manpower Corporation, San Jose, California
Maxm, Bethesda, Maryland
Mitchell Fontana Associates, Inc., New York, New York
Rydex Global Advisors, Potomac, Maryland
SAS Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina
Seabury & Smith, Chicago, Illinois
Shea Homes, Sacramento, California
Spirit of Glacier Bay, Cruise West Line
Talnet, La Jolla, California
Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tennessee
Texaco, Houston, Texas
The Murdock Group, Salt Lake City, Utah, Seattle, Washington
Tobin Real Estate, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Union Carbide Corporation, San Ramon, California
UPS Headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia
U.S. District Court, Springfield, New Jersey
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Potomac, Maryland
Western Contract Furnishers, Rancho Cordoba, California
Wohl Capital, Sacramento, California