Cheryl Kerr
		The Blue Throated Wrasse

"It's a Parotty!"
"No, it's a Wrasse!"
"No…I think it's a Blue Nosed Wrasse!"
"Could it be a Banded Wrasse?"
"Perhaps it's a Blue Nosed Banded Parroty?"
"Or a Blue Beaked…."
"It's got teeth!"
"What's in a name?"...quoth the cook with
the pan on the stove and the lemons ready in
an attempt to make the fish flesh edible.

She has fried, baked, steamed and, marinated.
Even salted and smoked them, wracked her
creative little cook's brain in her attempts but
they still tasse like water. Very boring water.
But for all that they are a beautiful creature.
I've never seen such brilliant colour in a fish,
the pink, orange and breath taking iridescent
blues.

Glorious! One could almost be tempted to
paint them.

Cheryl was born 20-12-46, educated in Melbourne, Victoria and trained as a nurse at the Preston and Northcote Community Hospital, Melbourne Victoria.

Cheryl opened her "Fool on the Hill" studio gallery to the public in 1999 to enable her to show and share her work. Mainly self-taught, she learns something new each time she paints and has developed a technique and style of her own. Mainly working in pastel she recently branched out in the use of acrylics and watercolour.

She was commissioned by the King Island Council to produce their "Welcome" brochure and worked in an honorary position to design the motivational brochure and video cover for the King Island Tourist Association.

She established an art gallery in Whittlesea, Victoria in 1978 and was commissioned by the Victorian Education Department to design and paint the murals on their library bus. She also worked for the Preston Market, Melbourne to produce their pictorial produce stall signs. The following year she won the acquisitive prize with the Kilmore Council for four pen and ink drawings and was subsequently commissioned to illustrate a brochure of historic buildings in the area. She also established, financed and edited a community newspaper in Whittlesea, now in its 20th year, has worked in floristry in the Melbourne and was elected to the City of Whittlesea Council. Following her move to King Island, she has spent ten years running tourist accommodation.

In 1990 she held her first solo exhibition on King Island and in 1995 and 1996 she won the King Island Acquisitive Prize. In 1995 she won the King Island Festival Drawing prize. 1998, she worked on Brochures for King Island Council and Tourist Association and in 1999 she held her second solo exhibition, King Island, opened by the late Jim Bacon, Premier of Tasmania. She produced pencil drawings for the King Island Historical Society Poetry Book in 2000. She was the honorary judge for the King Island Agricultural Society, the Flower show, and engaged in various commissions, was guest artist at Whittlesea and produced the Marg Towt, Sinks & Doodles, an entertaining exercise in Graphic and Literacy Lunacy, throughout 2001-2006.