Art in the Sanctuary
Title: Love Letters
Artist: Sarah Graham
Dates: July 2, 2022 - August 28, 2022
Reception: July 16, 2022 11am-2pm
Artist: Sarah Graham
Dates: July 2, 2022 - August 28, 2022
Reception: July 16, 2022 11am-2pm
For me, painting is a means to better navigate the world and more clearly articulate my experience within it. I don’t begin a painting with intention about content: i do have intention about quieting myself and heightening receptivity. I am trying to have a conversation when I paint - to listen to what is just beyond hearing and seeing. That which I can barely perceive is of deepest interest to me: the nuanced exchange between spirit and matter.
With attention to this, I try to follow the lines and the spaces and the colors and they most often lead me into consideration of horizons, trees, clouds, earth formations, and since living here by the Haw, rivers flowing through it all. During Covid, the human figures began showing up.
I believe the essences of things are usually elusive and ineffable, and the gift of the arts is that they bring us nearer, help us to dwell for awhile in the vicinity of essence. This is always my wish with the painting.
"There are many ways to kneel down and kiss the earth." Rumi
With attention to this, I try to follow the lines and the spaces and the colors and they most often lead me into consideration of horizons, trees, clouds, earth formations, and since living here by the Haw, rivers flowing through it all. During Covid, the human figures began showing up.
I believe the essences of things are usually elusive and ineffable, and the gift of the arts is that they bring us nearer, help us to dwell for awhile in the vicinity of essence. This is always my wish with the painting.
"There are many ways to kneel down and kiss the earth." Rumi
Sarah Graham is a painter living in Pittsboro. in previous iterations, she has been a teacher of both children and adults, a park ranger at Grand Canyon, an environmental educator, and a tutor specializing in autism. In addition to painting, she spends as much time outside as she can manage and loves storms, birds, singing, reading, dogs weather, the ocean, writing, and good food in no particular order.
website - www.downagravelroad.com and instagram is @downagravelroad
website - www.downagravelroad.com and instagram is @downagravelroad