Lolly Shera · Oil on Linen on Panel · Golden Hour, September 2026
Lolly Shera
Painter — Oil on Linen on Panel
Golden Hour, September 4 — October 1, 2026
“The beauty of the landscape touches a chord deep within. My paintings are about the internal experience, where objective reality and spirit are infused.”
Selected works.
The eight works Lolly Shera brings to Golden Hour are available through JG Art Gallery. Inquiries are welcome.
Lolly Shera is a contemporary American landscape painter based in Washington State.
Known for her luminous, atmospheric oil paintings, Shera captures the beauty and quiet grandeur of the Pacific Northwest and the Western United States. Her work is deeply influenced by the late 19th-century American Tonalist movement, with its emphasis on soft light, mist, and subtle color harmonies. Through thin, transparent layers of paint known as glazes, she creates richly nuanced surfaces that give her paintings a distinctive glowing quality.
Rather than simply reproducing a scene, Shera draws upon field studies, observation, and memory to convey the emotional experience of a place—capturing not only what the landscape looks like, but how it feels. Her paintings evoke a sense of peace and wonder, inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and connect with the natural world.
Before becoming a full-time artist, Shera worked as an environmental educator and elementary school teacher. She holds degrees from Western Washington University and the University of Washington. A childhood spent hiking, skiing, and boating fostered a lifelong connection to the natural world and continues to inspire her focus on wild and protected spaces. She later pursued professional art training at Gage Academy and the Georgetown Atelier.
Golden Hour, shown from First Friday, September 4, alongside Lisa McShane, was her first show with the gallery. Her studio and practice were featured in Where Women Create magazine.
My work is rooted in a deep emotional connection to the landscape. I am drawn to the quiet, fleeting moments in nature—the movement of light across water, the softness of distant hills, the stillness after rain. These moments are not just observed; they are felt, remembered, and internalized.
I paint not to replicate a scene, but to distill its essence—to evoke how it felt to stand there, to breathe the air, to be immersed in its light and space. Using thin, transparent layers of oil paint, I build my surfaces slowly, allowing the painting to develop a sense of atmosphere, memory, and depth. My process blends direct observation with drawing and recollection, often working from field studies, journals, and impressions that linger long after I’ve left the land itself.
Influenced by the American Tonalist tradition, I seek a quiet reverence in my work—where color, light, and form whisper rather than shout. I want my paintings to feel familiar yet dreamlike, inviting the viewer to bring their own memories and emotional experiences to the image.
Painting is how I explore the shifting relationship we have with nature—both personal and universal. Through this work, I hope to offer a moment of stillness, reflection, and connection.
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