“I love marble. I love the luminescence and the sparkle when you achieve the perfect degree of polish. I love the way the edges glow and the soft transition of light on the curves. People ask why I do it; why work in a medium that is so dirty, slow, noisy and dangerous, not to mention difficult. It’s because for me, there are few things in art as glorious as a beautifully rendered marble sculpture.”

Sherry Tipton was born in Lubbock, Texas and grew up an only child in Oklahoma. Drawing and music were her passions from a very early age, both continuing into adulthood. Classical piano and bassoon were her focus of study, training and orchestral performance for many years,  while she kept drawing as a private outlet  that was shielded from any outside critique. Eventually, she began working as a portrait artist, but then shifted to stone sculpture with the desire to make her drawing fully three dimensional. A lifetime of drawing aided her transition to sculpture immensely and she is self-taught except for work she has done with sculptor, architect and now husband, Edward Fleming.

Instead of learning with clay, as is more typical, Sherry went straight to stone. She works primarily in marble, but also in alabaster and limestone.  Her subject is primarily the human figure rendered directly in stone, with a blend of realism and artistic license that emphasizes the beauty of line and minute detail. Often, her favorite thing about a sculpture will be so tiny that it will be missed unless pointed out.