Santa Barbara nature artist/photographer Cheryl Medow creates images of wild birds, in imaginary and real environments entirely derived from her original photographs.
Medow studied ceramics at Chouinard, received a BA in Art from UCLA, studied printmaking at Hand Graphics and digital printmaking with Mac Holbert and John Paul Caponigro in Santa Barbara.
Since first exhibiting her work in 2006, Medow has received many accolades including numerous Best Of Show awards and her work is held in numerous private and public collections. There have been multiple articles written about her work including Proof.National Geographic - An Altered Reality by Becky Harlan in 2014 and Inspire Adobe Photoshop For The Birds by Alyssa Coppelman in August of the same year. Her series has been exhibited at the Wildling Museum, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago, Illinois and her work is represented by the Photographs Do Not Bend (PDNB) Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Medow hopes that by embracing her hyper-real bird images, her audience will also create more space for birds living on our planet and be mindful of the fragility and beauty of life itself.
