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

Acrylic Ink

Jurors Choice award Winter Blooms

Downtown urban core Jacksonville

main library Jan 2025

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

The Art Center Jacksonville

"First Place"

Sputnik

26x34 Flow Acrylic and Ink

Archival varnish under Acrylic Sheet

Smothered in Blue Show

Installations

Curated Shows....Awards

2025 Museum of Contemporary Art and UNF Jacksonville Florida "Artist Talk" May 3rd 1:00 to 3:00 "My Journey with inks"

2025 "Jax Contemporary" Museum of Contemporary Art /UNF Jacksonville. North Florida Artists exhibition

2025 Main library downtown urban core Jacksonville Fl "Jurors Choice Award" Naturally Winter Blooms

2025 Childrens Home Society "Evening of Taste" supports CHC of Florida

2025 Acrylic ink workshop First Coast Cultural Center Ponte Vedra Jan17th SOLD OUT

2025 3rd place "Asteroids" FCCC at Sawgrass

2024 Artist Salon “First Coast Cultural Center Artist Talk

2024 Showcase artist thru January FCCC

2024 Acrylic ink on canvas workshop Feb 27thFirst 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