SandyHarrington.com

Ink and Watercolor Artist

A Love of Color

I love the translucence of watercolor and all varieties of inks and dyes.

I am attracted to the vivid 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 can be a boon or bust. It is highly transparent, and prone to accidents

which requires some patience embracing the unpredictability.

I am my happiest painting, so I try to share the energy, joy and happy accidents

of each finished piece.

Biography

Sandy Harrington is a native Floridian and has painted as long as she can remember.

Her background as an artist began in illustration and advertising for the Daytona Beach

News Journal and Hurd Moss Advertising in Daytona Beach, Florida

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, Mainland High School in Daytona Beach

and Seabreeze High School in Daytona Beach.

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 both on paper and canvas.

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 and Flow Acrylics

Flow acrylic and alcohol inks are on

clay board, bristol and yupo. I use archival spray for fading.

Resin on Clayboard or Canvas

My larger resin work is on clayboard or canvas .

My collage work is done on canvas with polymer gels

and foils.

RECENT WORK

Storm

24x48 Ink &Acrylic under acrylic sheet

Wilson Center for the Arts

Honorable Mention

Molten

32x42 Flow Acrylic and Ink

under Acrylic Sheet

Red Hot Show Show 2019

The Art Center Jacksonville

"First Place" SOLD

Sputnik

32x36 Flow Acrylic and Ink

Archival varnish under Acrylic Sheet

Smothered in Blue Show 2019

The Art Center Jacksonville

Annex Gallery

Installations...Curated Shows....Awards

2021 1st Place "The Reef" Earth Day juried art exhibition sponsored by the City of Atlantic Beach and Word Revolt Gallery

2021 Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville "Imagination Squared"huge group show in atrium

2021 FemArts Gallery Jacksonville Fl "Behind the Mask" virtual showing The Blue Veil watercolor on board

2021 "Vivid Women" FemArtsGallery Jacksonville,Fl "Asteroids" "Downpour"

2021 "Edges Hard and Soft" Wilson Center for the Arts Florida State College dual show with Kim Guzzone

2020 the Museum Science and History Jacksonville Fl. "ImagiNature" one woman show "Florida Botanicals" runs Sept 26th-Nov 19th

2020 the 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 "the Reef" on loan for new office building

2020 Jacksonville International Airport "Women Artists Visual Experience" exhibition Haskell Gallery Jan16th-July

2020 FemArt Gallery Women who "Face" it 10 S Newnan St. downtown urban core Jacksonville Jan 12th-March28th 2020

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

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" runs during Annie: "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 "Faces" Show Amelia Island sponsored by ACT Community Theatre, Amelia Island Florida watercolor portrait "Angel"

2018 The Color Purple FemartGallery "Sisters"

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 Cultural Arts Center at Ponte Vedra "Honorable Mention" 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

2015-2017 Saint Augustine Art League

2015 Archway Gallery "Watercolor Botanicals"

2015 Reddi Arts Jacksonville Arts League Show Hendricks Ave downtown Jacksonville

2015 First Street Gallery Neptune Beach Art Guild Show watercolor "Ginger" and "Crotons"

2015-2016 Jacksonville Coalition of the Visual Arts Summer and Winter Shows

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 2019

" 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 2017