Shirley Bernstein

Shirley spent most of her adult life in New York City and moved to the rural northeast corner of Connecticut in 1989. She became captivated with the beauty of the land and sky and has been creating oil pastel paintings and prints of all kinds of skies since. Although her focus is primarily looking to the heavens for inspiration, she also enjoys drawing the figure and other natural forms. She has an extensive exhibition record that includes both her oil pastels and prints and has shown her work both nationally and internationally. Her work is in the collections of The Newport Museum, Library of Congress, Slater Museum, Indiana University Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Union Carbide Corp., Neiman Marcus, Arjo Wiggins, Eastern CT State College, Wheaton College Rare Books, Staubiz Design, Dodd Center Special Collections at UCONN and Fairfield University. Shirley was Artist of the Month in March for the Oil Pastel Society of America, which was seen on line at www.oilpastelsociety.com, where you can also view her current oil pastel works. Shirley was elected to the Oil Pastel Society as a signature member.