Cheryl is a natural history artist, painting plants and insects in watercolour, on paper and vellum. She particularly enjoys painting Australian native plants and insects, and more recently has been focusing on threatened and endangered species. Cheryl teaches both botanical and insect illustration. She hopes that through her painting and teaching, she will encourage people to look at the natural world with curiosity and fascination and therefore be more inclined to look after it.

Cheryl has won several awards in recent years including Best in Show at the BASA exhibition and at the Wildlife and Botanical Artists’ exhibition. Her works are held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas. Cheryl has held two solo exhibitions of her botanical watercolours. She is an invited member of the Florilegium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney with two paintings in the permanent collection. Her painting Taeniophyllum cylindrocentrum was commissioned and is held in the permanent collection of the CSIRO. She also have a painting in the Florilegium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.