ARTist/ PAINTER
SARAH WINKLER
Studio | Colorado
Sarah Winkler was born in Manchester, England. She lived abroad in Malawi, Africa and Brunei, Borneo as a child before emigrating to the United States due to her father’s career in aviation engineering. Winkler studied Art, Creative Writing and Earth Science at school in the UK and at William Paterson University (NJ) and combines those passions in her approach to landscape painting. She and her husband, Jason have lived in California and Colorado for over 25 years exploring the West’s diverse National Parks and Wilderness areas. The studio is located at the summit of a 9,000 ft peak in Colorado’s Front Range near Denver.
Her paintings are a striking exploration of the geological story of mountain and desert landscapes, characterized by their hard edge, bold color and dynamic forms. Rich textures and layered brushwork evoke the rugged terrain and intricate organic patterns, while vibrant color palettes reflect the dramatic shifts of light and the emotional resonance of the seasonal cycles. She structures her paintings in distinctive layers to resemble geological strata and often embeds minerals such as mica, obsidian and marble to bridge the tangible and the abstract nature of both the physical landscape and the artistic interpretation of it. Using a mirror effect to show the hidden subsurface geology with the visible world above, creating a dialogue between what’s beneath and what’s experienced.
When not painting the American and Canadian Western Landscapes, Winkler travels abroad to witness some of the Earth’s most precious and protected geological landscapes in Iceland, The Italian and Swiss Alps, Hawaiian Island Volcanos, Orkney Islands in Scotland and beyond. These trips often lead into small collections of work for her international collectors.
Sarah’s unique approach to painting the history of the landscape has led to creating bespoke ‘Flavor Profile’ art commissions for clients such as Maker’s Mark Whisky, Imagery Winery and Royal Caribbean onboard restaurants. These unique paintings depict the aspects of the landscape region as it relates to the raw ingredients for the beverage or cuisine.
For the artist, mountainous regions are the greatest spiritually uplifting and most challenging landscapes on Earth. Their uplifted geological formations expose millions of years of our planet’s historical climate and fossil record. They are a window to the past and continue to evolve and change before our eyes. There is nothing quite like the 360 degree view from the summit of a peak. You are literally flying high.
About
Sarah Winkler is an internationally collected and commissioned artist of mountain and desert modern landscape and nature based paintings. Her studio is based near Denver, Colorado. She has Galleries representing her artwork in US and Canada. Her work has been exhibited since 2010 in solo gallery shows in Vail, Santa Fe, Bozeman, Denver, Park City, San Francisco and Seattle and featured in the LA Art Fair, Seattle Art Fair, Art Aspen, Jackson Hole Art Fine Art Fair, RH Modern, Denver. She has been awarded several major art commissions including Maker’s Mark Whiskey in Kentucky, Vail Health in Vail, CO, The Cosmopolitan Hotel of Las Vegas, Royal Caribbean in Oslo, Norway and Barcelona Spain, Amazon HQ in Washington, The Hotel Oberland in Switzerland. Recently featured in TIMES UK, Cowboys & Indians Magazine, Mountain Living, Dwell, BYTE 15, American Art Collector, SW Contemporary, New American Paintings, Dwell, Alpine Modern, LUXE, Vail Valley. The artist is the subject the documentary short, 'Moment' by Making Art Films.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2026 - TBA Solo Exhibition, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2026 - Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS (Museum)
2025 - TBA - Whistler Contemporary Gallery, Whistler, BC
2025 - Desert Modern - Vail International Gallery, Vail, CO
2025 - Down River - Visions West Contemporary, Livingston, MT
2023 - Edge of The Wild, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 - Peak Perspective, Vail International Gallery, Vail, CO
2022 - Scenes of Summer, ARTSY, New York, NY
2022 - Uplifted, Gallery MAR, Park City, UT
2022 - Chasing Starlight, Eclipses & Rainbows, Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO
2022 - Montana Landscape, Visions West Contemporary, Bozeman, MT
2022 - Heart of The Mountain, Vail International Gallery, Vail, CO
2021 - Mountain Glow, Gallery MAR, Park City, UT
2021 - Dreams About The West, Owen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2020 - All Mountain, Gallery MAR, Park City, UT
2020 - Land of the Glacier, Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO
2020 - Reflections in Winter, MiXX Atelier, Telluride, CO
2019 - Monumental Duality, K Contemporary, Denver, CO
2019 - Stratification: MiXX Atelier, Telluride, CO
2019 - Sedimentary, Foster / White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019-2023 - Art in Embassies. US Dept. of State. US Ambassador’s Residence, US Embassy, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
2018 - Exploration, A Survey of Recent Works, K Contemporary, CO
2018 - Luminous Mountainous, K Contemporary, Denver, CO
2017 - Altered Landscapes, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2017 - Past / Present, Gallery MAR, Park City, UT
2016 - Abstracted Landscapes: Four World Views, Space Gallery, Denver
2016 - Formations, Constructed Landscape, Helikon Gallery, Denver, CO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024 - Air, Foster / White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 - Mountain Standard Time, Visions West Contemporary, Denver & Montana
2024 - Water, Foster / White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 - After The Gold Rush, Western Gallery. Austin, TX
2022 - Fire, Foster / White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022 - I Love the West and The West Loves Me, Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO
2022 - Earth, Foster / White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2021 - Wildflowers, Gallery MAR, Park City, UT
2019 - Response, Colorado Governor’s Residence. Denver, CO
2019 - Art of the State, Arvada Center, Colorado
2018 - Open Space: The Finite Frontier, Curtis Center, CO
ART FAIRS
2023 - Seattle Art Fair with Foster/White Gallery. Seattle, WA
2020 - Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair with K Contemporary. Jackson, WY
2019 - ART ASPEN with K Contemporary. Aspen, CO
2019 - LA ART SHOW with K Contemporary. Los Angeles, CA
CV available upon request.
ART COLLECTIONS (SELECTED)
Makers Mark Distillery, Louisville, KY, Imagery Winery, Sonoma, CA, Royal Carribbean, Oslo, Norway and Barcelona, Spain, Cosmopolitan Hotel of Las Vegas, NV, Hilton West Palm Beach, FL , Deer Valley Resort, Park City, UT, Montage, Deer Valley, Park City, UT, One Empire Pass, Park City, UT, Mountain Shadows Resort, Paradise Valley, AZ, The Phoenician, Paradise Valley, AZ, The SLO Hotel, San Luis Obispo, CA , San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, Chevron HQ, San Ramon, CA, Albemarle Corporation, Kings Mountain, NC & Charlotte, NC, Justin Vineyards, Paso Robles, CA, Vail Health Hospital, Vail, CO, Catalyst HTI, Denver, CO , Newmont Mining Corp. Denver, CO, Morrison & Foerster Law Office, Denver, CO, Ritz Carlton, Denver, Squaw Valley Resort, CA, Lodge Tower, Vail Village, Vail, CO, Amazon HQ, Bellingham, WA, Montefiore Einstein Medical Center, Labor and Delivery, Bronx, NYC (Upcoming), Hotel Oberland, Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland (upcoming)
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CORPORATE COLLECTIONS (selected)
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (selected)
