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" Lily Pads "
Sally Berner
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Sally Berner grew up in a small town in Wisconsin with
Lake Michigan in her backyard and the beauty of Door
County less than an hour away. She has been an active oil
painter for over 18 years in the Realist tradition and her
love for nature and animals has led her to concentrate on
painting North American wildlife, domestic animals and
commissions of household pets, especially dogs. She has
traveled to the ice floes of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to see
the Harp Seal pups being born, has been with Polar Bears
in Churchill, Manitoba, and in Montana and Wyoming
searching for wildlife in their natural habitats.
Her oil painting “Happy Thanksgiving” which was juried
into the prestigious Birds in Art 2000 at the Leigh Yawkey
Woodson Art Museum, was included in their national
tour, and also won first prize in the “Animals” category of
The Artist’s Magazine’s annual art competition. Her
painting of a Wood Stork was in Birds in Art 2004 and
also was included in the national tour.
In 2000 she won first prize in the “oil & acrylic” category
at the Art Show at the Dog Show in Wichita, KS.
In 2003, her painting “Washed Up” was in the Arts for the
Parks Top 100.
In 2003 she became a member of Oil Painters of America
and was juried into their National Art Exhibition held at the
Nichols Taos Fine Art Gallery in Taos, NM. She has also
been juried into several of the OPA Regional shows.
She completed a number of art courses at the University
of Wisconsin, Madison, but her most extensive art
education has been through an excellent local teacher who
founded the Gordon School of Art in Green Bay, WI.
Nearby Door County is a thriving art community and she
has attended many classes with a variety of wonderful
artists through the Peninsula Art School. She has also
taken a number of workshops with noted artists such as
Joseph, Mendez, Jove Wang, OPAM, Tom Lockhart and
Diane Rath, OPA, through the Barnsite Studio and Gallery
in Kewaunee, WI.
She has studied with several excellent wildlife artists
including Robert Bateman, John Seerey-Lester, Carl
Brenders and John Banovich as well as workshops with
Morgan Samuel Price and OPA Master William Scott
Jennings. She finds art is a never-ending quest for
knowledge and always wants to learn more.
Sally is happiest when interacting with animals whether at
home or in the wild. She is active in the Golden Retriever
Rescue of Wisconsin and has one very active young
Golden of her own.
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