Welcome to Oil Originals!

Sharon Taylor Padgett has been painting and selling her oil and acrylic paintings for nearly 30 years. Originally from Allendale, SC, she grew up throughout Florida, and was influenced by her tropical surroundings.

Her subjects on canvas range from portraits, plein air landscape painting and life at the beach, which is her passion. She studied art at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Fl., with Zita Mellon, known as a colorist from Allendale, SC., and with Livio Valentini, a modern artist, at the University of South Carolina in Aiken.

A former newspaper reporter, Sharon is an accomplished writer, illustrator and painter. She has won numerous awards from the SC Press Association for her articles and photography and from juried art shows for her paintings. She is past-president of the Aiken Artist Guild, in galleries in Georgia and South Carolina , and teaches step-by-step painting workshops to adults and children. Sharon can be reached at her home studio in Aiken, South Carolina.