Peggy Shearn is a self-taught artist whose current series of paintings deals with narrative and the odd visual world of dreams. She learned drawing and design doing graphic design and commercial illustration work and went on to learn darkroom photography, calligraphy, and printmaking in her spare time. She helped found and now co-runs a not-for-profit art gallery in the Chicago suburbs. Shearn has shown her work in the Chicago area, including at AIR Gallery in Glencoe, The Evanston Art Center, Elmhurst College, The Art Center Highland Park, Mars Gallery in Chicago and ARC Gallery in Chicago, amongst numerous other venues.