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Possessing the mixed features of a fairy and touched by an angel, as her mother says, Sara was brought into this world in the month of November 1981. It didn’t take long for her parents to see the natural talent in the long fingers Sara was blessed with. Drawing faeries, mermaids, and all things Disney soon started to fill all types of paper and daydreams. The influences of her parents strongly increased Sara’s creativity; her father being an art teacher, her mother a craft creative, and sending her to the Edmunds Academy of Fine Arts elementary school. The art of fine arts, music, and culture were ingrained from the start. She was awarded a scholarship to attend an art class at the Des Moines Art Center, where today she in turn teaches children and teenagers |
Sara’s work comes mostly from self-motivation
to learn the human figure. She worked from Disney paper
dolls, comics, magazines, and photographs. It was a shock
factor when she attended the Minneapolis College of Art
& Design only to find she had many misconceptions
of how everything was to move. It was liberating when
she found she could draw without a reference and took
whimsical lines by the stronghold. She found that watercolor
and ink provided the visual aspect she was feeling inside.
Now Sara’s work flows, flies, and moves freely incorporating
elements of design and color. Her studies included graphic
design, observation, illustration, advertising, and art
history. Though fantasy art had always been the main subject
matter for Sara’s work, it wasn’t until her
junior year of college that she was told by an instructor
to look into history for inspiration and composition.
This opened an entirely new book to her work. She traveled
to Glasgow Scotland to study abroad at the Glasgow School
of Art and dived deeply into fairytales, mythology, symbolism,
Mucha, Waterhouse, Mackintosh, Froud, and Pre-Raphaelites.
Sara’s Senior Show was focused on mythology and
folklore, the Tuatha De Danann, and hidden meanings in
Celtic art. She thought she knew where she was going and
felt confident in the next steps of her career.
In the more recent years the journey has turned and has
influenced Sara’s work even more increasingly through
personal battles and blessings. Her visions were enlightened
by a friend who opened a new doorway to a new faith, Christianity.
Finding more strength and inspiration in this spirituality,
Sara’s work has become all encompassing for love,
peace, harmony, and honor. Not feeling pressured to do
what is expected of her as an illustrator, but to find
her own originality. Her watercolor paintings strive to
tell a story about passion, strength, true love, battles,
princes and princesses, and heavenly realms. Her faeries
and mermaids have the glow of angels, and her angels the
humanity of Eve. Not leaving her studies behind or her
love of fairytales, she makes it a point for children
and adults alike to understand the importance of imagination,
fairytales, and the story we all sigh for.
Today Sara resides in Iowa, her hometown, continually
painting, managing her work online at Dreamflier
Studios.com, teaching, being there for her friends
and family, those she loves, and waiting in anticipation
as to what the new day brings. Her work is a part
of her life, ingrained into her soul, and a gift
she is thankful for every moment.
"It is my hope that I inspire others with visions of spirit, love, and imagination."
