Creativity is what Sarah is best known for and art is her passion. As a mixed media artist she creates modern art utilizing varied mediums and techniques plus multiple color palettes, textures and forms. With lifelong training in the arts, Sarah incorporates thought, observation and emotion throughout her portfolio. The art is created intuitively relying on her many unique processes, thus the portfolio is diverse and appealing: mixing reality with abstraction. Sarah beautifully reveals her thoughts and visualizations of the world around her in an abstract expressive art style unique and well designed, thus pleasing her collectors.

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 Sarah has been jury selected for multiple exhibitions on local, regional and national platforms. Some of her awards include: several Best of Show  and other award categories for multiple pieces in a variety of mediums. 2024 found Sarah winning First Place for Body of Work at The Bower Center for the Arts 12th Annual National Exhibition:Three Blind Mice, This Is How We Roll and When the Bullfrog Sings, mixed media; as well as, several second place awards. These are: The Virginia Orchid Society: Smiling Orchids in hand dyed fibers,The Bower Center for the Arts National Exhibition:Three Blind Mice,The South Atlantic Exhibition at the Montpelier Fine Arts and Education Cente: Nature's Minutiae -hand dyed fibe, The MacCallum More Museum and Gardens Juried Show, Sunlit Morning - oil,Suffolk Art Gallery exhibit To the Max with Under the Rubble-mixed media. Sarah was also awarded Honorable Mention at the Suffolk Art League's National Juried Exhibition for Wild Orchids, a hand dyed fiber piece.

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In addition, Sarah's Art has been selected for publication: Fresh Fish: Textile Artists and Poets explore underwater life (2021), Sew to Speak, SAQA  (2024); and most recently Artemis-volume XXIX-2022 and Volume XXX-2023 and volume XXXI-2024.

 

Sarah has served as President of Lake Country Artisans Guild from 2016-2023. She also volunteers regularly curating and hanging exhibitions; always  uniting artisans with community in both Virginia and North Carolina. 

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Sarah enjoys and excels at hanging art.  Well trained, her skill has enhanced the presentations of work

by many artists throughout VA and North Carolina.

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Sarah works from her multiple home studios on Lake Gaston in North Carolina.  She exhibits and sells her work throughout the eastern United States.

 

Please enjoy Sarah's art....Creative Expressions! 

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                                    Image:The Well Rooted Artist Fiber, 2023