About Me

I’m Cheryl Galbraith. I’m a self-trained artist and I create most of my art from my hometown of Paisley, Scotland.

From a young age, I and those around me recognised that I had a natural talent for creative expression through a variety of artistic media. At first, I was particularly drawn to sketching and drawing in pencil and charcoal.

Over the years, I have found myself more and more drawn to being creative, experimenting with metal sculpture work, clay and painting. Experimenting with various ‘trial and error’ techniques, finding inspiration from the many places that I have been lucky enough to travel to throughout my career, such as Asia; the Middle East; North America; and Europe, all of which has influenced my creative style, colour and process.

I create art that expresses my passion for wildlife, coupled with my interest in animal behaviours & taking pleasure in capturing animals’ facial expressions and personality. My aim is to make captivating paintings, capturing my subjects characteristics and bring them to life, with the use of contrasting colours and detail, specialising in Acrylic and Spray Paint as my current medium of choice.

My artistic style is modern, expressive visual art, inspired and motivated by wonderful graffiti artists such as ‘ROA’, ‘DAleast’, ‘Dzia’, and duo ‘Pipsqueak was here’, as they all have an individuality of style of animal art creations, as well as the incredible animal artists such as Hua Tuan, Sara Butt, Helmut Koller & textile artist Sophie Standing who creates beautiful art, that also inspires me. I also have to give great credit to the many wildlife photographers who are able to capture the most unique and powerful moments in the animal world that can be admired & helps to fuse the urge to create!

I never fully pursued the artist path & choosing instead to immerse myself in the Events & Entertainment world, surrounding myself with a variety of performers and artists, working behind the scenes within the live entertainment industry. I have been creating art on and off over the years due to challenges of my career, not finding the time. However, I have given more attention to my art in the last 2 years.

Although not formally trained, I enjoy creating art, experimenting and learning. This journey has given me the drive to share my appreciation of the beauty of animals. I am really happy with my journey which has taken me to use bold colours and now currently painting additions to “Animalia Fera”, meaning “wild animals” in Latin.

There is still so much I would love to accomplish with my art, such as planning an exhibition, working with animal charities, creating public commissions and murals, and many other projects close to my heart, so keep up-to-date with news across my social media platforms. 

If you are brewing local craft beer and need an artist to create the brand let me know… I would like to hear from you!

Email: cherylgalbraith.art@gmail.com