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Thank you for taking time to visit.

To view my current work and artwork for sale, please visit my webpage listed below.

If you have questions regarding my work, please do not hesitate to contact me at sharonbarfoot@yahoo.ca

I will be on retreat for several months, so contact here will be minimal. I certainly hope to return in the new year with a refreshed look to my work.





Please take a moment to visit my webpage at
www.sharonbarfoot.com

www.artquestconsulting.com





Some of my paintings can be purchased at:

www.etsy.com/people/zapphastudio?ref=si_pr


FUTURE EXHIBITIONS:

Griffin Gallery - Roxy Theatre - Owen Sound Ontario Canada
Mar. 27 to Apr. 24, 2010
Meaford Hall July 3, 2011
Southampton Museum September 2011


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Sharon Zappha Barfoot is a writer/illustrator and art therapist. She draws from experience in adult education, public relations, theatre, and the arts. Sharons academic studies include Fine Arts, Philosophy, Comparative Religion Womens Studies and Adult Education at the University of Western Ontario, University of Michigan and St. Francis Xavier University. Upon completion of these studies she taught creative arts courses at the University of Western Ontario and Fanshawe College in London Ontario. Sharons own spiritual quest has taken her to such places as Guatemala, Mexico, England, Ireland, Wales, India, China and Europe as well as extensive travel in North America. Exposure to various cultures combined with theatre experience led Sharon to explore ritual and ceremony in depth and provided her with the incentive to make this an intrinsic part of her own reality. In 1980, she had formulated a method of sharing her wealth of transformational studies, the culmination and blending of her learning experiences, into a workshop format. She now uses these workshops in her capacity as an art therapist and creative writer.

Sharon's paintings are inspired by her desire to learn to be present in the moment and paint from an instinctive internal source rather than from external references. She paints in an intuitive, improvisational way where the composition and surface dictate how to proceed. Abstraction is used in her work to inspire meanings and feelings unique to the individual viewing her work.
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The last few years of my life have been life-changing. I have had the privilege of living in India and China. In 2006, I started a non-profit to raise awareness of how poverty affects children. We concentrate on providing educational resources to those in need.



Interview with Katherine Treffinger at Treffinger Daily: katherinetreffinger.blogspot.com/2009/05/sharon-zappha-ba...

Editor's Choice Award in Downtown LA Life Magazine
downtownlalife.tripod.com/id496.html


Commentary, Stories and Thoughts zappha.wordpress.com/commentary-stories-thoughts/

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