Bio

Sharman Kamen was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. At an early age she attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School where she developed a lifelong love of painting and drawing. She attended Queens College from 1968-1971, majoring in Art and studying with many renowned artists including Richard Serra, Mary Frank, Harold Bruder and Tom Doyle, all part of the New York School Movement.  After graduating college, she attended the Art Students League of New York in Manhattan, where she studied abstract expressionist painting with artist Knox Martin. With a love for our youth and children of her own at home, Sharman decided to continue her growth as an artist and as a person with a focus on teaching. She subsequently earned a Master’s Degree in Special Education from Long Island University in New York, graduating summa cum laude.

In the years to follow, in addition to teaching special education, Sharman taught art in New York for 22 years and was published in School Arts magazine in Aug.-Sept. 2004. As a member of the National Art Education Association, she was an attendee of many diverse art workshops throughout the United States. She has participated in art shows and group shows in galleries in New York, and is represented in various private collections.

Presently living in southeast Florida, Sharman is painting in her studio and attends the Boca Museum Art School where she continues her pursuit of artistic mastery and inner growth.  Sharman’s expansion of her ability to convey her emotions on canvas is at the heart of her goals as an artist and thusly, has created this website as a platform, not only to breathe life and escapism to our visitors, but to act as a tributary to the river of her expression.