SandyHarrington.com
Ink and Watercolor Artist
A Love of Color
The focus of my work is watercolor and ink.
I am attracted to the transparent color and the way it moves around on the paper.
My artwork style is wet on wet, creating flowing patterns.
Dropping wet color onto wet paper is unpredictable and prone to accidents.
It requires a great deal of patience and loss of paper.
I am my happiest painting, so I try to share the energy, joy and happy accidents
of each finished piece.
Biography
Sandy Harrington is an award winning Jacksonville ink and watercolor artist.
Her professional art background began in illustration and advertising in
Daytona Beach, Ormond Beach and New Smyrna Beach,FL.
Her clients included:
Fairgreen Golf and Country Club, New Smyrna Beach, Old Salty's Inn Daytona
The Daytona Inn, I-Care Child Abuse Campaign, PineTrail Elementary School
O'Connell's Restaurant, New Smyrna Beach, Bentwood Subdivision, Port Orange, Florida
After raising a family, Sandy managed a career in real estate, while donating her time
to Volusia County Schools. She produced large scale murals, costumes and scenic design for:
the Children's Musical Theatre in Ormond Beach, Florida and Mainland and Seabreeze
High Schools in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Her artwork could be seen in the following productions.
CMT Productions of Beauty and the Beast, Princess and the Pea, Broadway Melody and Secret Garden
Mainland High School productions of:
Will Roger's Follies, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
Seabreeze High School production of: Meet me in St. Louis
Since retiring to Jacksonville in 2014... Sandy has continued to experiment with color
on paper and canvas.
Gallery installations listed below.
Watercolor
Portrait work in watercolor is by commission.
I prefer Windsor Newton watercolor on clay-board, illustration board or watercolor board.
UV archival protected
Ink acrylic/alcohol
acrylic and alcohol inks are on
watercolor canvas, graphX and yupo. I use archival UV spray and gel for fading.
Alcohol ink
Alcohol ink on synthetic papers.
“Ebb tide” above on display at
Jacksonville Aviation Authority
down town urban core Jacksonville
RECENT WORK
Molten
32x42 Flow Acrylic and Ink
under Acrylic Sheet
Red Hot Show Show
"First Place"
Sputnik
32x36 Flow Acrylic and Ink
Archival varnish under Acrylic Sheet
Smothered in Blue Show
Installations
Curated Shows....Awards
2024 Artist Salon “First Coast Cultural Center
at Sawgrass Ponte Vedra runs thru July 29th
2024 Showcase artist thru January FCCC
2024 Acrylic ink on canvas workshop Feb 27th
First Coast Cultural Center
2023 3rd Place Jacksonville Coalition of Visual Arts "Hydrangeas" Vandroff Gallery
2023 One Woman Showcase Sandy Harrington “Players by the Sea” runs during “Xanadu” an ABET production
2022 Fem Art "Grand Opening Show" Downtown urban core Jacksonville " Jellyfish" acrylic ink
2021 "Purely Primary" Vanderplas Gallery lower Manhatten New York, NY "Combustion, Midnight Blooms,Traffic" acrylic/alcohol inks Dec 6-19
2021 1st Place "The Reef" Earth Day juried art exhibition sponsored by the city of Atlantic Beach and Word Revolt Gallery
2021 One Woman Show "Players by the Sea" Jacksonville Beach Fl. runs July thru August
2021 Loosen up your watercolor portraits with Sandy Harrington a "watercolor workshop" Orange Park Art Guild
2021 A two woman Show “Edges Hard and Soft" Wilson Center for the Arts Florida State College with Kim Guzzone
2020 One Woman Show Museum Science and History Jacksonville Fl. "ImagiNature" "Florida Botanicals" runs Sept -Nov
2020 Museum of Science and History watercolor workshop by Sandy Harrington October 3rd 2020 10:00-12:00
2020 Jacksonville International Airport Abstract show "Through Your Own Lens" Concourse A&B Fall 2020
2020 Jacksonville Transportation Authority downtown urban core , art on loan for new office building
2020 Jacksonville International Airport "Women Artists Visual Experience" exhibition Haskell Gallery Jan16th-July
2019 First Place "Molten" acrylic and ink at curated show "Red Hot" Annex Gallery" Jacksonville The Art Center downtown urban core
2019 Second Place "Tomoka Salt Marsh" The Art Center Jacksonville Florida Habitats Show Jacksonville Fl downtown urban core
2019 Wilson Center for the Arts Honorable Mention "Storm" acrylic and ink South College Jacksonville, Fl JCVA Summer Show
2019 FemArtsGallery "Abstract Show" downtown urban core "Storm" "RipTide"
2019 Amelia Island Community Theatre "Brighter Tomorrows" "Daybreak" resin on clay board and "First Light"
2019 "Women from Jag" Show sponsored by the Jacksonville Art Guild at the Landings "Storm"
2019 Cultural Arts Center at Ponte Vedra Florida Flo Acrylic "First Light"
2018 ID Arts Magazine featured Artist
2017 First Place "Blue Ice" the The Art Center downtown Jacksonville show "Abstraction at its Best"
2017 "Kaleidoscope" a one woman show, Adele Grage Cultural Arts Center, Neptune Beach, Florida
2017 Cultural Art Center at Ponte Vedra "Dual Show" Sandy Harrington and Amy Dove "Fiber and Fire"
2017 Showcase Artist for November Five and Dime a Theatre Company downtown urban core Adams Street
2016 Wilson Center for the Arts "South by Southlight" "Carnival" and "Sunset" sponsored by Southlight Gallery
2016 First Place Cork Arts District "Collage Tryptic" sponsored by Southlight Gallery "Pop at Cork"
2016 Honorable Mention "Sunset" Southlight Gallery, Abstract X Summer Guest Series
2016 2nd place "A Closer look" Flagler County Art League
2016 "Featured Artist" Fab Florida Magazine
2015 "Honorable Mention" Cultural Arts Center at Ponte Vedra Study in Red and Blue 2015
2015 "First Place" Art from the Heart "Carnival" Palm Coast Florida at Flagler County Art League
2015 "Merit Award " Going Coastal" Palm Coast Florida Flagler County Art League
2015 Deland Museum of Art "Volusia Artist Holiday Showcase"
2015 Hub on Canal Street Gallery New Smyrna Beach Florida exhibiting artist
2015 Cover Artist Flagler Magazine 2015 Palm Coast Florida
2015 2nd Place watercolor "Pansies" Every Color has a Story Flagler County Art League
2015 Reddi Arts Jacksonville Arts League Show Hendricks Ave downtown Jacksonville
Judges Statements
"This piece was absolutely striking. Wonderful flow and composition. The use of red
is truly impressive"
"Molten" acrylic and ink
Red Hot Show
"First Place"
Art Center downtown urban
core Jacksonville
Anna Miller
" Her strikingly beautiful work shows how something that's a totally abstract combination of colors can hold a persons attention. The colors drew me in the moment I entered the room"
Abstraction at its Best
"First Place"
"Blue Ice" ink and acrylic
The Art Center Jacksonville
Rob Middleton
"This painting drew me in instantly with
it's vibrant colors, serendipitous moments in paint and the deliberate marks made by
the artist. It is fun like a carnival."
"First Place" Carnival
Flagler County Art League Show
Tony Wood
"View Kaleidoscopic watercolor works
by "Sandy Harrington"
First Coast Cultural Center
" Fiber and Fire"
Dual Show with Amy Dove
First Annual Earth Day Art Exhibition 2021
City of Atlantic Beach and Word Revolt Gallery
First Place winner
"The Reef"
30x40 watercolor on Fredrix w/c canvas
Recent shows
Edges Hard and Soft
Wilson Center for the Arts
Joint show with Kim Guzzon
Florida State College South College
South Campus
Vivid Women
Fem Arts Gallery Jacksonville Asteroids
Imaginature
Museum of Science and History
One woman Show
"Imaginature"
"Florida Botanicals"
Vandroff Gallery
Jacksonville Coalition of Visual Arts 2023
3rd Place
"Hydrangeas"
Women Artists Show
Haskell Gallery
International Airport Jacksonville
Mallows ink/acrylic
NE FloridaWomen Artists Show
International Airport 2020
Behind the Mask
Fem Arts Gallery
Jacksonville Fl Jan-Feb 2021
The Blue Veil watercolor
Through your own lens
Jacksonville International Airport
Abstract Show Concourse Oct 2020
Fl Citrus Show
TheArts Center Jacksonville Fl "watercolor"
Early Blooms
downtown urban core
FL Habitat Show
The Art Center Jacksonville Fl
acrylic on canvas
"Tomoka Salt Marsh"
2nd Place
Roots Show
Women Writing for a chang Riverside Jacksonville Fl
watercolor "Blue Sanctuary"
MEDIA
Watercolor Portraits
Watercolor board and Clayboard
Contact Sandy
Email me at: sandyharrigton50@gmail.com
Call or text me at (386) 547-4805
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