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artist -Desiree Holmes Scherini's Bio
Desiree Holmes Scherini works in several different media, including watercolor, oil, pastel, pencil and charcoal, as well as photography. She specializes in Home and Business renderings which are executed in a realistic style, while her abstract paintings and impressionist work are expressive and colorful. She enjoys and welcomes commissions of all subjects.
Desiree holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology, from the University of California. Her art studies began in college and have continued through classes and workshops. She has studied under Impressionists Lee Boynton, John Ebersberger and Bonnie Roth Anderson, joining a following of their teacher, Henry Hensche. She has studied figure and portrait painting with Cedric and Joanette Egeli. She has also studied sculpture of the figure and head. She enjoys sharing her love of art through teaching, as well. She teaches art for St. Mary’s Elementary School’s after school enrichment program. She has taught art for ArtStart at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, and teaches art at Anne Arundel Community College, in Maryland. She also holds private lessons.
Desiree is an active member of several Annapolis, Maryland area art groups which include the Annapolis Watercolor Club, the Annapolis Arts Alliance, the Maryland Federation of Art, the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts andthe Maryland Society of Portrait Painters. Her art has been displayed in several juried and non-juried shows, and is displayed in homes and businesses across the United States and overseas.
Her artwork has been featured on the cover of the Baltimore Symphony’s Decorators’ Show House 2006 book, as well as posters and other promotional material for the event. Her painting “Abstract Annapolis” was chosen for promotional material for ARTWORKS 2006 (a city wide arts celebration), and her commissioned painting was used for the summer, 2006 cover of “Washtrends”, a regional trade magazine. Her artwork was also chosen for the City of Annapolis’ 2007 Holiday card. Desiree lives in Annapolis with her husband, 3 children, a dog and a cat.
