Artist Bio
For as long as Sarah can remember, she has been drawn to art. As a child, she spent countless hours staring at the paintings in her home. She was mesmerized by the knowledge that humans could create such beauty and yearned to follow suit.
That inspiration took her to Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration with a Minor in Fine Arts.
After college, she discovered the Montessori Method and earned her Montessori Teaching Certificate. After teaching a few years, she began her own business, Quality Montessori. For the following decade, she worked full-time running a successful business, creating and selling language materials. You can find her products online here.
In late 2023, Sarah decided to finally pursue her passion for art. She enrolled in the Milan Art Institute and began painting every day. She has embraced expressive oil painting, and plans to paint for the rest of her life.
She now resides near a grassy lake, with her loving family, in Fort Collins, Colorado. She takes daily walks in nature for inspiration, plays piano to keep her mind sharp and gardens for the joy of it. You can often find Sarah in her studio, with music blasting, and an array of paint-filled brushes scattered absentmindedly about the room, as she fully immerses herself in the painting process.
Artist Statement
I want to share who I am, my heart, my energy. I am grateful to be alive and nature is my fuel. Broad Milky Way filled skies, subtle alpine glows, color bursting desert sunrises, abundant backlit grasslands, mirror like lakes, harmonic rain forest storms and thunderous crashing waves on reflective beaches, these are the experiences that I treasure and seek. These are the moments that inspire my paintings.
I like to say that I am a color connoisseur and playfully refer to myself as a paintbrush magician, because that is how I feel about painting, it is magic. It enchants the senses. I am drawn to light and color and try to capture their power. I have an open ended intuitive process. I go with the flow and paint what feels right in the moment. I like to watch the painting emerge. I am inspired by Impressionist artists and like to paint loose and expressive.
My heart is strong. It has been broken into a thousand pieces and fused back together again. Leaving it more. Full of compassion, understanding, gratitude and love. I have experienced the heart break of losing a parent to suicide, the diversity of traveling the globe and the overwhelming joy of giving birth. My experiences have taught me what is truly important in life. That we all matter. That our value is not defined by our salary but by our integrity and grit.
