Originally, Sarah focused on realism but her Sophomore year of college, her professor told her to focus on abstraction and use her dreams as her inspiration. From there, she has developed her paintings into more creative abstractions.
Sarah works mostly in series, using the same inspiration for many paintings. The inspiration for most of her paintings are poems, stories, bodies, x rays, cat scans, etc. Most of these works are abstract and focus on both emotional and personal events. She calls it, "getting energy out." The series created through these emotions and experiments are Sexual Water, Loss, Love Sonnet, In Between, Unleashed, Gramercy Park, Search, Breaking Through, Surrender, Wreckage, and Hope Street. She also has paintings that are not part of any series. Some of these include Becoming, Torn, Dormant, and Levitation.
She uses different types of ground, or material she paints on, which include plywood and canvas. The media she uses include acrylic, plaster, and oil paints. In her paintings, she experiments with colors, paint drips, paint globs, and shapes.
Here is one of my favorite paintings of hers. She originally didn't like the painting so she painted over it in black. After she realized what she had done, she took a towel and wiped some of the paint off creating what is shown below. The title "Breaking Through #5" works well with the painting.
Breaking Through #5, acrylic on wood, 48" x 24"
In this painting, it is evident there is a figure and the painful expression it holds. For this painting, she had inspiration from the body and x-rays of ribs.
Breaking Through #3, acrylic on canvas, 72" x 32"
