Sharon's work has been profoundly influenced by her participation as artist, on scientific expeditions to remote and biologically diverse ecosystems of the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon on expeditions with the Field Museum, Conservation International and Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program. She has long explored the interfaces of art, science, conservation and nature in numerous series of artworks in diverse mediums including glass, bronze and ceramic, as well as works on paper.

Sharon has created many temporary public art installations at plant conservatories and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, France, as well as Suite Home Chicago, Amazon Rising for Shedd Aquarium, and a Cool Globe sponsored by the Chicago Botanical Garden. She has completed sculptural works in glass and bronze for the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago. Her public art installation, "Soil: Alive With Life", based on soil microorganisms, is installed at Openlands Lakeshore Preserve, a 77-acre Illinois Nature Preserve in Highland Park, IL. Sharon continues to show her work at many galleries and museums.

"Soils, Seeds and Sprouts: Tropical and Temperate" was a compelling, insightful solo exhibit that launched at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in 2017 interpreting and communicating natural history and science through the vehicle of art. One large scale installation, Earth Stars: Above and Below features numerous Earth Stars, a type of fungus that can open and close and that is found all over the world. The second, a multitude of enlarged seeds for Seed Rain: Seed Bank that looks at the amazing diversity of seeds, dispersal methods and the importance of natural seed banks. Her seed installation is currently featured in an online exhibition sponsored by Svalbard Global Seed Bank and Artist for Plants.

In 2020 she received a Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events (DCASE) grant to create a book based on soil seeds in sprouts, and the publication contains four essays, three by scientists and one by an arts curator, making it a true fusion of art and science.

In 2016 she was the first Artist in Residence in the Amazon with Project Amazonas, spending several weeks at their forest reserve near Iquitos, Peru. She returned to the Peruvian Amazon in 2020, to complete another artistic residency at Grand Amazon lodge. Most recently, in 2022, she visited the Tiputini Biodiversity Station deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon and Yasuni National Park, considered by scientists to be possibly the most bio diverse place on earth. She is currently exploring new work based on her investigations.

View this short 4-minute video of Sharon discussing her art at ALMA Arts and Interiors, with footage from her trip to the Ecuadorian Amazon at the Tiputini Biodiversity Reserve in 2022. Film by documentary filmaker, David McGowan.