Sharon Bloom: The Joy is in the Connection

Sharon Bloom is a visual artist and teacher who LOVES Halloween. While her education is in painting and print making, today she is best known in the Halloween art world for her vivid Halloween themed hand-built ceramics. She enjoys clay because it gives her a chance to work dimensional.   A life-long learner, Sharon is always trying out new technology, tools, and techniques. She's had such variety in her creative journey: painting t-shirts at Nordstrom, painting thousands of cards and buttons by hand, wholesaling, painting animals in renaissance type costumes, and more.   Sharon wants her art to help people feel a sense of joy, hope, and make them smile. It's more important that people connect to her art than anything else. She is touched that so many of her patrons come back to see her year-after-year.   Halloween is one of her favorite things in life. Her passion started in childhood while trying to fill pillowcases full of candy during trick-or-treating. She spends time with her Halloween collection on a daily basis. She believes that collecting is a way to surround herself with her Halloween friends.   She recommended the succulent, Black Prince Echeveria, and the work for her late friend, Christine Phelps.   Check out Sharon and her work at http://www.sharonbloom.com/