Sarah Ball

Sarah began her art journey at a young age, encouraged by participating in her parent’s art endeavors in creative wood carving panels, sculptures, and metal sculptures. While her life took other directions in college, she studied most heavily in her small-town high school art classes, moving from pastels and acrylics to oil paints as she developed her skills. Along the way Sarah developed skillsets in clay sculpture, photography, weaving, and fiber arts, but on semi-retirement from her professional career more focus time has lent her skills to painting. While oils are in the forefront, multiple media of gauche, watercolor, and acrylics have entered the mix.

Sarah is focused on what it takes to create and to depict the process of making a painting ‘work’. Sarah states she enjoys using compositional frameworks of celebrated artists of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo eras to reflect contemporary subject matter taken from photographs and daily life, (but more to follow on that!).

Currently, Sarah has shown several paintings in Saint Louis based galleries with both regional and national juried shows over the past 3 years. She has displayed varied subject matter, evolving from Indigenous native American and world refugee topics to our natural environment. The goal of her work centers on creating an emotional connection with her audience through the two-dimensional canvas.

Sarah's piece, Oak Tree Wisdom, is currently showing in Webster Arts show Emerald and was awarded Best in Show. You can see this painting in the Webster Arts Gallery now through March 29.