ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY
Sarah Kushwara is an American surrealist (b.1981, Connecticut.) She was influenced by the arts in her boarding school years at The Gunnery. She graduated from Colorado College with a BA in English and University of Bridgeport with an MS. As an expat, she spent years working in India,Turkey, and Bolivia. She started to paint in Istanbul and studied light in the Altiplano. She developed her style while being self-taught, later trained under visionary artists in the lineage of Ernst Fuchs. She has: exhibited in group and solo shows, illustrated horror novels, made album covers, and placed in photography exhibitions. She specializes in the Mischtechnik and the DuMonde Palette. She currently resides in New Mexico.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My creations have a variety of eclectic and electric subjects, often obviously and sometimes subconsciously inspired by my five years as an expat, and a view into the world of spirits and magical entities beyond and yet within our own—Jungian symbolism, shamanic concepts, and ancient symbolism are woven into this. As a former ice hockey player and martial artist, my work is inspired by movement and the subtleties of stillness in a moment. Beneath every movement or restraint of movement lies a spirit that I try to capture.
My work is influenced by my years as a naturalist and I can often be found in bogs, mountains, and forests extensively studying a specimen to paint.
Last but not least, music influences my work—especially Indian Classical ragas and Turkish Psychedelic music from the 1960’s.