About Cheryl Lynn Looker

Although the decision to follow my passion as an artist has come about later in life, when I look back, I see that my interest has always been in drawing and painting. As a young child of second grade, I can remember drawing a horse out of an encyclopedia type of book and this drawing being selected out of the entire school to hang in the principals office. As a teenager looking to make a buck, I took a job babysitting for a neighbor that was an art teacher and it just so happened that she was going for her Masters in Fine Art at that time. I was blessed to be paid to babysit but also, after the children were in bed, to learn how to do a myriad of art that I would have never been exposed to. I could not have been happier! The next knock in the head that I got about doing art was when I went to college after my divorce. I was in my early 30’s and took an art class as my humanities elective to get my degree in radiologic technology. The art professor stopped to talk to me one day as I was leaving class and said to me “please tell me that you are getting a degree in art.” but I parroted what I had been told my whole life and said “you can’t make any money in art.” These events should have awakened me and my art destination should have been in sight but growing up my parents were part of the mindset that “you can’t make any money at art” and made sure that I heard that so I would get a “real” job when I grew up. It is hard to discount words that have been living in your head all of your life but after traveling through many jobs and not finding my peace, I have found peace in my art.