Biography

Cheryl Mossberg was born in Birmingham, Alabama. From very early on in childhood, she had an interest and a love for drawing, painting and creating. Cheryl studied at The University of Mississippi receiving her BA in Art, with an emphasis in ceramics. Early in her career, she established the ceramics program and taught painting and drawing at what was rated the #1 private school in Alabama - Indian Springs School. After her stint in teaching, she grew to focus more on her own artistic expressions through inspired works and various commissions. Currently, she is a practicing studio artist focused on the mediums of oil, acrylic, and various other forms of mixed media. Her primary medium is oil. She currently works and lives in Oxford, Mississippi. She and her family live in a quiet, secluded house in the Mississippi countryside. Her studio is attached to the house, as a sort of sanctuary amidst the Mississippi forest surrounding them.

Within Cheryl’s artwork, there are several themes at hand, with some being spirituality, nature, Christian iconography, and the capturing of her imagination in its purest form. She uses her faith as a guiding hand when creating, bringing you into her world of reverie and curiosity. Within her art, the subject matter often consists of wildlife, people, mythology, story-telling, and nature. There is a dream-like aura about the subjects in any given painting. Her artwork is ethereal and whimsical, yet dramatic. Her use of chiaroscuro is reminiscent of Baroque artwork. She uses various oil painting mediums and encaustic techniques in order to create textures and sheens. Cheryl goes between layering colors upon colors, and other times uses a very minimal color palette. Both of these techniques tend to create emotional effects, whether dramatic or serene. The utilization of negative space in her artwork calls you to observe every inch of any given piece. Cheryl Mossberg gives the viewer a glimpse into a previously unseen world, that which was only known by her.