The focus of my work is ink and watercolor.
I am attracted by the vivid color and the unpredictable way it moves around on the paper. My artwork style is wet on wet. Dropping wet color onto wet paper to create soft ,washy effects. I let the ink do unpredictable things.
Sandy Harrington is an award winning ink and watercolor artist from Jacksonville Florida.Her background as an artist began in illustration and advertising for the Daytona Beach News Journal and Hurd Moss advertising in Daytona Beach, FloridaHer clients included:Fairgreen Golf and Country Club, New Smyrna Beach, Old Salty's Inn Daytona The Daytona Inn, I-Care Child Abuse Campaign, PineTrail Elementary School, Bentwood Subdivision, Port Orange, Florida
Sandy was active with Volusia County School’s theatre departments producing large scale murals, costumes and scenic design.
Exhibitions and Awards
Museum of Science and History Jacksonville “Imaginature” a one woman show "watercolor botanicals"
Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art/UNF “Contemporary” Show and Art Talk "My Journey with Inks 2025“Jurors Choice Award” 2025 Jacksonville main library “Naturally Show” with JAG and TAC Main library downtown urban core Jacksonville, Florida“Best of Show” City of Jacksonville Beach Florida... Earth Day Exhibition Wilson Center for the Arts Jacksonville: “Edges Hard and Soft” a two woman show.
Jacksonville International Airport : “Through Your Own lens” abstract show Concourse B
Jacksonville International Airport : “Women Artists Visual Experience” Haskell Gallery
City of Neptune Beach: one woman show “Kaleidoscope”"First Place" Cork Arts District “Pop on Cork” show with Southlight Gallery
First Coast Cultural Center Ponte Vedra 3rd place "Asteroids" 2024
Purely Primary lower Manhattan NY,NY Vanderplas Gallery
First Place "Molten" Red Hot Show The Art Center Jacksonville,Fl
2nd Place "Florida Habitat Show" TAC downtown Jacksonville
"Featured Artist" Fab Florida Magazine"Honorable Mention" Cultural Arts Center at Ponte Vedra Study in Redand Blue "First Place" Art from the Heart "Carnival" Palm Coast Florida at FlaglerCounty Art League
"Merit Award " Going Coastal" Palm Coast Florida Flagler County Art League
Cover Artist Flagler Magazine
Recent Events:
2025 Art in Public Places St John’s County Rotunda Gallery “Floral and Fauna Show” 2025 Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville ongoing until Nov.
Childrens Home Society "Evening of Taste" art showcase and charity auction2025 3rd place "Asteroids" FCCC at Sawgrass2025 Artist Salon “First Coast Cultural Center Artist Talk2024 Showcase artist thru January FCCC2024 Acrylic ink on canvas workshop Feb 27th First Coast Cultural Center2023 3rd Place Jacksonville Coalition of Visual Arts "Hydrangeas" Vandroff Gallery2023 One Woman Showcase Sandy Harrington “Players by the Sea” runs during “Xanadu” an ABET production
Ink workshop First Coast Cultural Center 2024 and 2025
Sandyharrington50@gmail.com
(386)547-4805