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Sarah Connell is a ceramic and watercolor artist living in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of San Antonio since 2013. Her love of nature and natural forms inspires her work. She pursues her passions of nature and art in her home studio, utilizing the garden around her home, native and non-native plants and animals as inspiration for her watercolor paintings. Her process allows her to pursue her passion in mindfulness, using repetitive pen and ink drawing to complete paintings.
Sarah is also a ceramic hand builder, leaning heavily on pinch, coil, and slab techniques to sculpt organic forms. Her forms are intended for use as planters, trinket or collection boxes, or bud vases. All forms are meant to be held, and are a reflection of a meditative state embodied when sculpted. Sarah is a former elementary school Art Educator, now teaching active older adults through the GO! Arts Program at Bihl Haus Arts.
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Artist Type: Multi-Disciplinary: Multiple Art Forms; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Artisan, Ceramist, Craftsperson, Illustrator, Mixed Media Artist, Painter, Sculptor
Artist Style: Teaching Artist/Instructor: Instruction for Seniors; Visual Art: Abstract, Contemporary, Decorative/Ornamental, Dream Imagery/Ethereal, Environmental, Experimental, Figurative, Focus on Color/Light/Movement, Functional, Illustrative, Nature/Wildlife, Photo-Based Painting, Representational, Sacred/Liturgical Art
Artist Medium: Clay; Collage; Drawing Media; Watercolor
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
Sarah Connell's love of nature and natural forms inspires her work. She pursues her passions of nature and art in her home studio, drawing inspiration from the garden around her home, and native and non-native plants and animals as inspiration for her watercolor paintings. She uses detailed watercolor techniques, layering colors meticulously to depict exact colors and forms of plants and animals. Her process is one of mindfulness, using repetitive pen and ink drawing for finishing paintings.
Complementary to her watercolors, Sarah is also a ceramic hand builder. Through pinch, coil, and slab techniques she sculpts organic forms for use as planters, trinket or collection boxes, and bud vases. All forms are meant to be held, evoking a sense of joyful serenity to the person holding her forms.
