About
I have been painting since the year 1999 at age 15, which is when I knew in my heart I truly wanted to become an artist 🧚♀️
My background is in Graphic Design, Art Therapy & Shamanic Healing 🪶
I graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors from the University of Memphis with a Bachelor of Fine Art degree and a concentration in Graphic Design in 2006.
I spent the summer studying abroad in England and then went on to graduate school in Connecticut where I studied Art Therapy for a year 🦋
During my time in graduate school, I was an after school tutor for refugee and immigrant children, an art therapy intern at a addiction clinic, and an art recreation volunteer on the ICU Neuroscience floor at Yale-New Haven Hospital ❤️
The art therapy program I was in was based on Freudian and Jungian Psychology which is the study of the unconscious mind ❤️
This helped me dive deep into my unconscious mind and express universal symbolism through my artwork ❤️
These experiences developed a deep place in me for holding space and witnessing how the creative process heals simply by engaging in the Creative State Flow deeply often enough ❤️
I started intuitively experimenting with releasing my emotions through watercoloring tendril-like DNA strand “strings” in 2006 as a self soothing practice as using your hands to create literally anything is innately healing for all Souls 🧬 I call these tendril shapes I love to delicately create with a brush or pen, “Lyras” 🌌
By the 2010’s I was weaving these shapes into the hair of my feminine figure paintings. I learned how to express and evoke intense emotion with hair…as it can feel like the wind streaming through and around you 💕
Whimsical threads of hair can make you feel hopefully buoyant just as languid strands can be a visual for the grief healing process 🪷
The power of the wind is invisible until it blows through something…and when you see it, you can sense both delicateness and resilience 💐
In 2011-2013, I was a Store Artist at a Whole Foods outside Chicago for two years, where I was able to really express my love for handwriting as well as explore nutrition deeply in a community setting 🧚🏽♀️
Years ago, I started running in the forest nearby to epic symphonic battle music. As my mind worked through many things, I began to imagine warrior angels lending me their strength especially by the time the pandemic hit 🌳
This active meditation was the seed of many of my paintings. I knew they would be graceful, and shimmer —but they would also be unapologetically fierce 🔥
I wanted them to feel refined but unafraid to feel raw all at once because that is the power of embracing your truth no matter how ugly it may be and learning how to spin it into gold that is medicine for others to experience ☀️
I am drawn to the inward process of creating figurative art to express emotions my body did not feel safe expressing in real life for many years 💫
My mind, my heart, my entire Soul…were all afraid to share. For a very long time 🍃
To break free from that, and learn to live in my body as mine, whole and complete, worthy and loved is what my artwork is truly about 🐚
I love to write too, this is one of my favorites...my Mom called these little blurbs my "prose":
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The deepest of waters
Know how to drown you
The highest of mountains
Know how to awaken you
The softest of fields
Know how to comfort you
The hottest of bonfires
Know how to ignite you
The gentlest breezes
Know how to sweeten you
But it’s the scenery inside you
That knows how to free you
Written in 2021
I am heavily influenced by the way color, texture, and composition evoke emotions, and often ones we may not have a name for 💕
I am a wife and mother of two in the greater Columbus, Ohio area. I was born in 1984 (Taurus ☀️, Libra 🌙 Cancer ⬆️), grew up outside Memphis, Tennessee and I have also lived in Louisiana, Connecticut, Chicago and Cleveland🌷
Thank you for your interest in my work and creative journey, it means the world to me 🌻
Frequency healing has been a huge part of my journey I highly recommend NES Health and Solex 🦋 You can read more about my frequency healing journey here 💘
I also highly recommend The Emotion Code & The Body Code for releasing old trapped emotions and other energies from the unconscious mind, energy bodies and physical body 🦋
I invite you to explore deeper into your own journey with one of my art journals 🧚🏽♀️ or bring my journey’s transmutative healing energy into your space with one of my prints or posters 🪶
Always,
Sarah 🌹