Biography
Artist - Desiree Holmes Scherini Enjoys capturing the essence and beauty in the world around her through her art. She particularly enjoys seeing and sharing the color of forms. She works in several different media, including pastel, oil, watercolor, pencil and charcoal. Desiree enjoys painting a variety of subjects, and particularly enjoys landscapes, portraits, and figure painting and drawing. She has painted extensively “en Plein Air” (outdoors, from life) and is one of the featured artists in the book “100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic”.
Desiree is an adjunct faculty art instructor at Anne Arundel Community College and has taught at several art centers, including Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts and the Columbia Art Center. She also holds her own painting workshops and teaches groups in the area. She was recognized as a top art instructor by Expertise Magazine.
Desiree has actively participated in several area art groups. She was a board member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association and past board member of the Maryland Society of Portrait Painters, Annapolis Watercolor Club and Annapolis Arts Alliance. She is a juried "signature member" of both the Maryland Pastel Society and the Maryland Society of Portrait Painters.
Her art has been displayed in several juried and non-juried shows and is in homes and businesses across the United States, and overseas, and has been featured on posters and in other public venues. Her artwork was featured on the City of Annapolis Annual Holiday Card and media celebrating "Arts Annapolis", she was chosen as the artist to create the well-known Eastport Lights Parade Poster, and her poster artwork was also chosen as one of the favorites over the years to be featured along with others for a memorial celebration poster. She was also chosen as the artist for the 30th Anniversary Hospice Cup Poster. Upstart Magazine ran a feature article on her Art and Life Coaching in 2023 "Ethos - Free Your Mind" .
Besides her art career, she is a Certified Hypnotherapist and Life Coach with a degree in Psychology, and has multiple certifications in wellness and healing modalities. among them is Art Therapy. She was recognized as one of the Top 3 Hypnotherapists in the Washington DC area. She is also the author of the Amazon best seller - “Journey to Joy – The Written Path”, and is a featured author in the collaborative book "The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self Care - 25 Tools for Life" She hosts the YOutube and Podcast Show “Intuitive Journey with Desiree”.
Find her on Facebook as “Artist Desiree Holmes Scherini”
For more about her Life Strategist and Hypnotherapist practice, visit www.IntuitiveJourneywithDesiree.com and www.transhypnotherapy.com
or find All of her links at https://linktr.ee/DesireeScherini
Recognized as a top Arts Instructor by Expertise Magazine
Above - 30th Annual Hospice Cup Poster
Above - The 30th Annual Hospice Cup Poster for the Hospice of the Chesapeake
To the right - Eastport Yacht Club Lights Parade Poster 2009 featuring my artwork
Below - my feature in 100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic
