SALLY TREANOR
Sally Treanor works in transparent watercolor specializing in small format landscapes, figurative work, and impressionistic florals. Her traditional watercolor and Sumi-e techniques employ a limited palette based on triads. Sally considers painting to be an act of communication – a visual response in color, form, line – that conveys an insight about her subject matter. Her work is noted for intensity in both color and feeling, developed harmoniously.
Sally has studied with master watercolor teachers throughout the United States and all over the world and has taught beginning-advanced watercolor students for nearly fifty years.
BIOGRAPHY
Sally Treanor has lived all over the United States, including years in Hawaii, Texas, the Southeast, the Hudson Valley, and since 1987, Western New York. All that moving provided infinitely varied terrains and study with regional watercolorists. In addition, she has studied with master watercolor teachers in China, Switzerland, the British Isles, Greece, and Italy.
Sally has exhibited widely in solo, regional, and national juried shows, has taught all levels of watercolor classes and workshops since 1976, and currently teaches on Zoom. Many of her classes have been converted into videos available on YouTube. She also mentors advanced watercolor artists.
She is Past President, current Board Member, and Newsletter Editor of the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society, an Exhibiting Member and former Board Member/Officer of the Buffalo Society of Artists, and an exhibiting member of the Fine Arts League of Buffalo. She is Curator of Exhibits for the Phoenix at 269 Restaurant, and on the Committee responsible for the Art Gallery at Montabaur Heights, a Brothers of Mercy initiative that espouses “Wellness through Art.”