Sheryl Renee Dobson is an award winning internationally recognized American abstract expressionist painter and collagist of Caribbean, Native American, African, and European ancestry with strong Virginia roots, who grew up in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York and is based in New York City. Her love of art began at a young age and her creativity was greatly informed and enhanced as a result of early opportunities, beginning in junior high school and beyond, to engage in a life-long study of art and maintenance of a studio practice. She credits her rural Virginia-born maternal grandmother, a skilled seamstress, a brilliant clothing designer, a gifted painter, and a woman of faith, with: nurturing her creativity, encouraging her exploration of abstraction, and instilling in her an appreciation of fine fabric. These influences are reflected in Dobson’s persistent development of new fabric-like patterns within abstraction, using light, pattern, and texture as a reference to and a metaphor for: faith, connectedness, and culture.