Sally tharp biography

 Sally Tharp is an American painter and the need to create has always been prevalent in her life.  After graduating from University of Rhode Island with a BFA in , she worked in several creative capacities, though not necessarily in the traditional sense.  In , Sally became a full time artist.  Sally currently prefers to work in oils and explores taking small, every day objects and painting them on a large scale, focusing on color, form and most importantly light.

The objects she paints are aesthetically pleasing to Sally, and although there are schools of thought that ascertain that the subject matter is of no consequence, Sally chooses carefully what she paints.

"I am often drawn to the old, marred, scarred, imperfect and obsolete things in life, feeling the need to show a side of them that is beautiful- giving them a voice.  I invite the viewer to experience the qualities in them that I find appealing and to seek the beauty in the sometimes overlooke