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Artist: Sharon Furrate Bailey
Sharon Furrate Bailey was originally inspired at the age of eight after her father,
Lewis Reid Brown, a commercial architect, took her to an art showing. It was not
until 2007 that Sharon began taking art classes from art teachers that include: Marita
Gentry, Michelle Conques, Julie Buckner, Elise Toups, and Hannah Lane Romero.
She is now a full-time artist and you can find her almost daily in her Woodland
Art Studio in Baton Rouge. She is known for her use of color in her abstracts. She
also paints whimsical art such as her popular crawfish series that gained a broad
following and buyers when featured in The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate in
2008. Sharon has been a featured artist in several art events with the main ones
being the annual White Light Nights Arts Festival and Hot Art Cool Nights held in
the Mid-City Historical District of Baton Rouge. In addition, Sharon has had four
pieces accepted into the juried show entitled, The Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival in Alexandria over
the past five years. In 2016, her painting entitled “Crossing Jordan” won The Festival Award, in which this
painting became part of First United Methodist Church’s permanent collection. Sharon has also had her
paintings featured in films such as God’s Not Dead and Caged No More. The television series “Queen Sugar”
produced by Oprah has also featured Sharon’s work. She has been interviewed and featured in City Social,
225, and other publications. She has been commissioned and has sold to a wide variety of buyers all across
the United States and as far as Australia. She is happy to have her work available at the following: The Foyer
and Mosaic Garden (Baton Rouge, LA); Southern Chic (Alexandria, LA); Furnish (Metairie, LA); Hillyer House
(Ocean Springs, MS) and Indigo Boutique and Interiors (Houma, LA), Uptown Frame and Art 318 Art and
Garden (Shreveport, LA), Paperwhite Stationary Boutique (Baton Rouge, LA), La Belle Maison Designs (Baton
Rouge, LA) and some art is available in her Woodland Art Studio (Baton Rouge, La) where she teaches as well.
To find out more about Sharon Furrate Bailey, view her website: www.sharonfurratebaileyart.com.
Follow her on Instagram and Facebook. Contact Sharon via email [email protected] or by
cell (225-954-7991) if interested in a commission painting.
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