Sheryl was born in Melbourne and studied a graduate diploma in Visual Arts at NMIT. Her multi-award winning work is represented in private and corporate collections throughout Australia, Japan and New York.

Among the judges of these awards are:- Geoffrey Smith, Senior Curator of Australian Art-National Gallery of Victoria; Maudie Palmer- Senior Melbourne Art Curator and Director of Tarrawarra Museum of Art Jon Dwyer, Director of Christies Fine Art Auctions Dr Celia Rosser OAM; Paul Fitzgerald AM Dr John Gregory, Senior Lecturer, Theory of Art & Design, Monash University

Her most noted award was for the painting ‘Following the Landscape’, one of a series selected by Maudie Palmer for exhibition in the Nillumbik Art Prize. ‘Following the Landscape’ also won the ‘People’s Choice Award’.

Sheryl has been a featured artist at the Canterbury Art Exhibition at Canterbury Primary and has exhibited annually there since 1998. In 2008 she won best painting small works which was judged by Dr John Gregory, Senior Lecturer of Theory of Art and Design at Monash University.

She is currently exhibiting at Eagles Nest Gallery Aireys Inlet .

In producing contemporary Australian landscapes, Sheryl draws upon the topography of the land, then paints what she visualises as most significant. Her work is ever evolving along with the landscape that she paints. In the Wurundjeri District Series, the landscape and trees have almost a primitive simplicity to them to convey an ancient land. The work of Fred Williams and John Olsen have had the biggest influence in her work.