SARAH WINKLER
ACRYLIC, CRUSHED MINERALS ON WOOD PANEL
COLORADO, USA
Manchester, UK - born artist Sarah Winkler has lived in various countries, from Malawi, Africa to Brunei, Borneo. She has lived by Big Sur, California and in the Rocky Mountain and Desert West for the past 25 years. Her experience living in and exploring stunning geological landscapes influences her artwork. Winkler's Colorado studio sits atop a 9,000ft peak, where she creates contemporary landscape and nature based works as large scale acrylic paintings. She uses crushed minerals and maintains a collage layered aesthetic in her paintings. Winkler is an accomplished artist with an international reputation. Her works are in residential, corporate and public art collections worldwide including: Royal Caribbean in Oslo and Barcelona, Makers Mark Whisky in KY, Vail Health, Vail, CO, Mountain Shadows Resort, Paradise Valley, AZ, Cosmopolitan Hotel of Las Vegas, Viceroy, Aspen, CO, and Deer Valley Resorts, Park City, UT. She has created bespoke pieces for collectors in the US, Canada, Australia and UK.
Her work is represented in US and Canadian galleries. Has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions plus showcased at major Art Fairs in top art regions like New York, Santa Fe, Jackson Hole, Park City, Sun Valley, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver. Winkler is honored to have been featured in national publications such as Luxe Magazine, Dwell, Alpine Modern, UK Times, New American Paintings, American Art Collector, and Mountain Living.
“Sarah Winkler’s Landscape paintings of the mountain west and high desert are multi-dimensional portraits of the land that go below the surface in search of the patterns that form nature’s soul. She has emerged as one of the most distinctive and authentic voices in landscape art today”
Marc Le Varn, Co-owner of Vail International Gallery.
METHOD
Just as the earth’s geological formations present a layered landscape, so, too, does my imagery. I mimic the processes of erosion and deposition in landscape formation by applying acrylic paints onto wood panels, then removing it by a variety of techniques to mimic the natural patterns and textures of rock, flora and fauna. I often incorporate crushed minerals that I collect from the landscape into the paintings to blend Earth’s ancestral pigments with the modern pigment and rekindle the ancient language between the environment and the creative depiction of it. Through painting, I tap into the passion I have for the wilderness and the story behind why the landscape looks the way it does. Collecting rocks, hiking trails, rafting rivers, chasing solar eclipses, studying geological time and crushing minerals into pigment are some of the ways I connect the outdoors experience to the painting surface. Tuning in to the circadian rhythms of nature, our connection to it, and the positive well being that comes from experiencing it. Channelling all of those sensations into a piece of original art can truly bring oxygen into a room. Harnessing all the best that nature provides us indoors to draw from her magnificent well spring. My landscapes exist in the realm of the wondrous. A bridge between the real and the fantastic through combining abstraction and realism. A place that is familiar, yet the visual sensation is heightened through color, texture, story, and process.
“She can create a multi-faceted landscape. They’re beautiful, but they delve below the surface and show you things related to geologic time. So they’re not static in that sense. It’s not just the surface, but also the fossil record — having an ocean-bed fossil at the top of a high peak, say. This is the sort of thing that makes you think. People love her work for the beautiful aspects, but they love the work in a deeper level over time.”
Marc Le Varn, co-owner of Vail International Gallery
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2025 - TBA - Vail International Gallery, Vail, CO
2024 - TBA - Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO (December)
2023 - Circadian Rhythms, Vail International Gallery, Vail, CO
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
2018 - Exploration, A Survey of Recent Works, K Contemporary, CO
2018 - Luminous Mountainous, K Contemporary, Denver, CO
2017 - Altered Landscapes, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 - Abstracted Landscapes: Four World Views, Space Gallery, Denver
2016 - Formations, Constructed Landscape, Helikon Gallery, Denver, 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
Museum Exhibitions
2026 - (upcoming) Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS
2011 - Golden Contours, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA
2007 - Collages, Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL
2005 - Small Works, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions National and International
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
2019-2023 - US Ambassador’s Residence, US Embassy, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
2019 - Response, Colorado Governor’s Residence. Governor Jared Polis, Denver, CO
2019 - Sedimentary, Foster / White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019 - Art of the State, Arvada Center, Colorado
2018 - Open Space: The Finite Frontier, Curtis Center, CO
2017 - Past / Present, Gallery MAR, Park City, UT
Major Corporate Commissions
Art Commission: Amazon HQ, Belleview, WA
Art Commission: Newmont Mining HQ, Denver, CO
Art Commission: Makers Mark Whisky, Loretto, KY
Art Commission: Vail Health, Vail, CO
Art Commission: Platte River Power Authority, HQ, Fort Collins, CO
Art Commission: Hotel SLO, San Luis Obispo, CA
Art Commission: Mountain Shadows Resort, Paradise Valley, AZ
Art Commission: Cosmopolitan Hotel of Las Vegas, NV
CORPORATE Art COLLECTIONS (selected)
Albemarle Corporation, Kings Mountain, NC. Albemarle Corporation, Charlotte, NC. Catalyst HTI, Denver, CO. Chevron HQ, San Ramon, CA. Cosmopolitan Hotel of Las Vegas, NV. Deer Valley Resort, Park City, UT. Hilton West Palm Beach, FL. Hotel SLO, San Luis Obispo, CA. Hyatt Regency, Wichita, KS. Hyatt Regency St Louis At The Arch. St Louis, MO. Imagery Winery, Sonoma, CA. IMPINJ Headquarters, Seattle, WA. InterContinental, St Paul Airport, MN. Justin Vineyards, Paso Robles, CA. Makers Mark Whisky, Loretto, KY. Marriott Hotel, Paso Robles, CA. Montage Deer Valley, Park City, UT. Morrison & Foerster Law Office, Denver, CO. Mountain Shadows Resort, Paradise Valley, AZ. Newmont Mining HQ, Denver, CO. Royal Carribean International, Oslo, Norway. Royal Carribean International, Barcelona, Spain. One Empire Pass, Park City, UT. The Phoenician, Paradise Valley, AZ. Platte River Power Authority, Fort Collins, CO. Ritz Carlton, Denver, CO. San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA. Vail Health, Vail, CO. Viceroy Snowmass, Aspen, CO.
Education:
1994 BA. William Paterson University, NJ, Studio Art, Earth Science, Creative Writing,