Cheryl is a natural history artist, painting plants and insects in watercolour, on paper and vellum. She particularly enjoys painting Australian native plants and insects, and more recently has been focusing on threatened and endangered species. Cheryl teaches both botanical and insect illustration. She hopes that through her painting and teaching, she will encourage people to look at the natural world with curiosity and fascination and therefore be more inclined to look after it.
Cheryl has won several awards in recent years including Best in Show at the BASA exhibition in 2015 and at the Wildlife and Botanical Artists’ exhibition in 2017. Her works are held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas. Cheryl has held two solo exhibitions. Since 2005 she has exhibited in the renowned Botanica exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. In 2014 she was invited to join the Florilegium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney with her paintings Eucalyptus tereticornis and Acacia longifolia now in the permanent collection. Her painting Taeniophyllum cylindrocentrum is held in the permanent collection of the CSIRO. In 2020 her painting Eucalyptus pauciflora ssp niphophila was accepted into the Florilegium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.