Though she was born in southern California, Sarah considers Georgia her one true home. Her family moved to Elberton, GA when she was barely 8 months old and then on to Augusta, GA five years later. Augusta was the home she grew up in, graduating high school and eventually earning her Bachelor of Fine Art from Augusta State University in 2001. She relocated to the LaGrange area in 2003 when she married her husband, Chris.
Sarah has been involved in a variety of artistic endeavors before and since earning her Bachelor’s degree. In addition to doing private portrait commissions, she has taught art classes, privately tutored young aspiring artists, and participated in a number of local shows. Her most recent award came in the fall of 2007, when the Columbus Library granted her their respectable purchase award for her painting “Four Square on Taco Sunday.”
Her inspiration for portraiture comes mainly from studying the work of John Singer Sargent, whom she unabashedly refers to as the master portrait artist. Recently she has taken an interest in painting objective abstracts, combining realism of form and abstract expressionism to represent everyday objects: a broken light bulb, a mousetrap, or a hose bib.
