Sharon Davson Studios
Studios in Newcastle

Creative leadership means Dawson follows her passions to make a positive difference in our world. Over 400 celebrities have endorsed her World Flag and charitable ventures for world peace and endangered species awareness, art galleries are named behind her, and she has been acknowledged as the leader of a new art movement. Along the way, she has become the highest valued living artist in Australia. Each creative Dawson painting has been carefully documented and authenticated. Many of Dawson’s creations contain spiritual and environmental treasures as well as providing rich investment opportunity. In 2011 her painting, On the Ark of Salvation, became the highest valued painting by a living artist in Australia. Since then, more of her paintings have eclipsed that record value. Scanty living female artists worldwide have paintings valued in seven figures. For three decades, maximum of her artworks have been purchased prior they were created. Active on commission has afforded her several freedom in the international marketplace. When her works of art resell, they have mostly transacted from one collector to another without the involvement of commercial galleries or auction houses. This also means Dawson has maintained a glossy of privacy for herself and her lofty profile clients from the celebrity and corporate worlds. It already has a purposeful deposit within a private or corporate setting. Even though she worked predominantly on commission since 1984, Dawson never relinquished control of the style and subject matter of her art. The quality of her work allowed her the freedom to enhance and thrive her distinctive techniques. Big-hearted her art important relevance to its surroundings, whether it is a important scale painting, sculpture, glass labor or intimately drawn etching, print or woven image, has perpetual been a priority for Dawson. Her creativity is enriched by occupied with people, geographies and histories. She encourages other creative people to be more active in promoting their own work (instead of wholly relying on such systems as commercial galleries). Her floor talks in public art venues and elsewhere can deliver that empowering inspirational spark.

Before leaving school, she had acted, directed and staged plays within the local community. Many expected her to pursue a career in film or theater. However, she was also an artist with a passion for nature and animals. So she chose to trust a scholarship to scrutinize Pleasing Art at the College of Art in Brisbane (197274). She was soon leading the way to improve student conditions when she founded and became the beginning President of the fresh College of Art Student Union (case) in her first year of college. Artist and advocate were her chosen paths. From 1976 to 1980, she worked as a fulltime Lofty School teacher and taught evening classes in practical art and art philosophy. Yet, she quiet found time to create art works, look after horses and participate in arts and theater activities. She worked tireless for her goals and passions, fulfilling a childhood dream of purchasing a trivial acreage in which to rear horses. It turned out to be a rocky road adventure, beset with challenges and opportunities. By the time her travels concluded, she’d established her artistic style with the jigsaw puzzle imagery and had a renewed understanding for the fragility of the environment. Freelance meant selling her art, sign writing sponsor logos on the bus and writing articles for Australia’s Western Horseman magazine to fund her ventures. Drawn back to the desert, an one hour documentary about her art and adventures was made in 1983 when she returned to a secluded portion of South Australia.