Sherri Baldy
has been a creator of art from the time she was a little girl. Sherri
sold her first works of art to her 5th grade teacher. Her mother gave
her oil pastels and art pads, then her whole world changed. She was
found doing her art (her one true love) every moment she could slip
away. Her mother was her biggest fan. Her mother would fall in love
with every new piece of art work, encouraging Sherri to keep developing
her art and her dreams.In 1985 Sherri started designing a jewelry
line, stores were soon calling and asking for her designs. Sherri
developed the line into clothing that soon was being sold every where.
The line "Passion Designs" was being worn at the Country
Music Awards. Sherri has had such fun designing things like Designer
Bandaids to elegant bath lines. But her love for fantasy and whim
could not be kept silent.
She then
started designing dolls again like she did as a little girl with her
grandmother. Cloth dolls then sculpting in German clays, leading her
deep into the fantasy world again. Her fairy and mermaid art was soon
born and is now available in prints, greeting cards, original paintings
and sculpted works of art. Her mother started promoting Sherri's art
and quickly had her original sculpters being sold within 72 hrs in
stores like the Ritz Carlton Hotel gift shops. Sherri was soon entering
dolls shows and competitions and placing first place. She is proud
to say her art is now being sold around the world.
Sherri's
inspiration for these whimsical worlds comes from her lifelong love
of fantasy. As a little girl she danced and played with imaginary
fairies, and swam with invisible mermaids. She pushed her beloved
frogs and toads in her baby buggy and collected snails from under
the garden leaves. Her studio is now in her home town of San Clemente,
California is surrounded by the beach, which provides her with wonderful
visions of mermaids, fairies, dragons, castles and more.