Shirley Dawson Fine Art

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Shirley Dawson, photographer and digital artist, lives in White Hall, Arkansas with her husband and two canine friends. She uses her computer along with natural media software and her Wacom tablet & pen to create art from her photographs; combining her knowledge of modern technology and the techniques of the old masters to create her unique art style.

'Art by Shirley' is the fruition of a childhood dream. Shirley Dawson was born into a family of modest means in the deep south of the Central Arkansas delta. Her love of drawing and art began early and after a failed attempt to win a scholarship to a prestigious art school, consoled herself with drawing and then painting with acrylics on canvas and board. In her twenties, she became enamored with photography and purchased her first Canon (an AE-1) which she used until it fell apart in her hands; and then the digital revolution seized her attention and she purchased her first digital camera - A Sony Mavica. Exploring new and more modern models, she return to her Canon roots and the EOS SLR cameras and settled into that line of equipment. A career as a civil servant with the FDA opened doors and provided training in the information technology field and also fostered a love of software programs, especially graphic programs, leading to her interest in graphic design and digital image creation. Today, Shirley combines her love of art, photography & graphical software to merge the techniques of the old Masters that she studies, with modern natural media software which allows her to 'paint' with her Wacom table and pressure sensitive pen. Each finished art piece is hand embellished with brush strokes and acrylic paints.

Shirley's 'expressive' paintings and fine art photographs are her interpretation of what she sees in the natural world or captures with her high tech camera equipment. A love of nature and close observation of her human subjects help her depict scenes and subjects in a unique expressive way.