Desiree Holmes Scherini works in several different media, including watercolor, oil, pastel, pencil
and charcoal, as well as photography. She specializes in Home and Business renderings which are
executed in a realistic style, while her abstract paintings and impressionist work are expressive and
colorful. She enjoys and welcomes commissions of all subjects.
Desiree holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology, from the University of California. Her art studies
began in college and have continued through classes and workshops. She has studied under
Impressionists Lee Boynton, John Ebersberger and Bonnie Roth Anderson, joining a following of
their teacher, Henry Hensche. She has studied figure and portrait painting with Cedric and Joanette
Egeli. She has also studied sculpture of the figure and head. She enjoys sharing her love of art
through teaching, as well. She teaches art for St. Mary’s Elementary School’s after school enrichment
program. She has taught art for ArtStart at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, and teaches art at
Anne Arundel Community College, in Maryland. She also holds private lessons.
Desiree is an active member of several Annapolis, Maryland area art groups which include the
Annapolis Watercolor Club, the Annapolis Arts Alliance, the Maryland Federation of Art, the Mid-
Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts and the Maryland
Society of Portrait Painters. Her art has been displayed in several juried and non-juried shows, and
is displayed in homes and businesses across the United States and overseas.
Her artwork has been featured on the cover of the Baltimore Symphony’s Decorators’ Show House
2006 book, as well as posters and other promotional material for the event. Her painting “Abstract
Annapolis” was chosen for promotional material for ARTWORKS 2006 (a city wide arts celebration),
and her commissioned painting was used for the summer, 2006 cover of “Washtrends”, a regional
trade magazine. Her artwork was also chosen for the City of Annapolis’ 2007 Holiday card, and she
is the chosen artist for the celebrated Eastport Yacht Club Lights Parade Poster 2009.
You can contact her at: You can view her work and events at:
e-mail - dscherini@hotmail.com
www.artistdesireescherini.com
phone - 410-757-3704
443-694-5618
Commissions are welcome
Spa Creek Morning Pastel 16 x 20"
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