Born in Ottawa, Sharron Pretty graduated from the Commercial Art course at Fisher Park High School. She has taught art courses since 1983 with the Ottawa Board of Education, and for various Community Centres. She also taught at the JCC for four consecutive summers as Art Director of the Theater/Arts Program.
Her painting career flowered after her children became more independent, beginning with a group show at a Regional exhibit and growing to participation in frequent group and solo exhibits. Many of Sharron’s paintings reside in private and corporate collections.
Sharron has won two separate Canada Council grants to subsidize the writing and illustrating of a children’s story. The National Film Board contracted her to illustrate a 52-frame filmstrip, ‘Toonik Tyme, an Inuit Spring Festival.’ Other interesting work involving her artistic talent includes contracts with Federal and Provincial museums involving the children’s education departments.
