Sara Lawrence was born in Corvallis, Oregon and began her formal art training at the Bassist Fashion Institute. Married to her high school sweetheart, she traveled and lived all over the world as a military Officer’s wife, which provided the opportunity of study in the Master Class Art School under the direction of Herr Diether Kast in Esslingen, West Germany.

 

 

Sara began her career as a painter and serious artist while living in Germany during the early 1970’s.  In the five and a half years of study with Herr Kast, Sara trained extensively in the techniques and mediums of master artist Jacques Maroger (pronounced “Ma-ro-ZHAY”) (1884-1962). 

 

 

Maroger was a painter and the technical director of the Louvre Museum’s laboratory in Paris, France.  He devoted his life to understanding the oil-based media of the Old Masters.  The mediums of Jacques Maroger include a Flemish medium made with mastic to create a glossy finish and is used in combination with the Venetian medium.

Following her years with the Master Class and Diether Kast Sara earned her European Master’s Certificate and was highly honored when Herr Kast selected her to teach his English-speaking classes.

 

 

Sara’s professional painting career garnered many honors and her

One-Woman shows in Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Stuttgart, West Germany have been extremely successful.  She was “Artist in Residence” at the Flight Gallery of Fine Arts in Sierra Vista, Arizona.  Her participation in the art community included involvement in Art Associations in Arizona, Washington and Oregon and development of Art Festivals.

 

 

When Sara’s marriage ended, she returned to the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her two daughters, making her home in Brookings, Oregon.  She opened Sara’s Gallery and was renown for her portraits, landscapes, seascapes, sharp focus still life images, nature scenes and abstracts.  Always fascinated with photography, she enjoys the realism she can create on the canvas without being a prisoner to what the camera captures. 

 

 

“The thrill of surprising the viewer to the point of

taking their breath away is the best applause.”

 

 

Sara now resides in the Eugene, Oregon area, where her exhibitions at various galleries and art shows have been highly acclaimed.

“I love to be able to take nature’s puzzle apart and reproduce that puzzle on canvas.  To make water look so deep and wet that the viewer can almost feel what they’re seeing … to capture life’s reflections … that’s my goal. “

 

   Sara Lawrence