Photo Credit: McGlone Photography
Sarah Winkler is a contemporary abstract landscape painter born in Manchester, UK, whose work draws inspiration from the diverse geological landscapes she has encountered throughout her life. Having lived in places ranging from Malawi, Africa, Brunei, Borneo, to the dramatic coastlines of Big Sur, California, and the Rocky Mountains, Winkler now resides in Colorado, where her studio sits at an elevation of 9,000 feet. This high-altitude vantage point informs her signature mountainscapes, blending her formal education in Studio Art and Earth Science from William Paterson University with a deep appreciation for the natural world.
“ I aim to capture the shifting geology of the landscape through layered, textural paintings made with acrylics and embedded crushed minerals like mica flake, marble dust, granite and volcanic sand in luminous works that reflect the raw beauty and deep time of the American West. My paintings are the result of a distinctive artistic practice that not only reflects the geological forces of erosion and formation in mountain regions, but also reenacts them. I apply paints and then distress them with ground water and sanding tools to mimic the impact of wind, water and climate on landscape surfaces. My textures come from patterns observed in the landscape. Colors often sampled from locations depicted.”
Photo Credit: McGlone Photography
Winkler’s art is represented in galleries in the US and Canada, and has been exhibited since 2007 in museums, galleries and Art Fairs such as Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, LA Art Show, Art Aspen and the Colorado Governor's Mansion in Denver. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Kansas and has been placed in private and corporate collections including the Cosmopolitan Hotel of Las Vegas, Amazon HQ in WA, Royal Caribbean in Oslo and Barcelona, Hotel Oberland in Switzerland, Stanford Children’s Hospital and Chevron HQ in CA, Maker’s Mark Whisky in KY, Vail Health in CO, Deer Valley Resort and One Empire Pass in Park City, and Mountain Shadows Resort in Arizona. Winkler is a participating artist in the US Department of State’s Art in Embassies program, where her work was recently showcased at the American Embassy in Dushanbe, Tajikistan for three years. Her work has been featured in Mountain Living, Alpine Modern, Colorado Homes & Lifestyles, Dwell, LUXE Magazine, Mountain Express Magazine, Vail Valley Magazine, American Art Collector, New American Paintings, Scientific American, Times UK, and she is the subject of the documentary film, 'Moment' by Making Art Films.
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SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2026 - The Big Pretty, Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS
2011 - Golden Contours, San Luis Obispo Art Museum, San Luis Obispo, CA
SOLO INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
*2019-2023 - Art in Embassies. US Dept. of State. US Ambassador’s Residence, US Embassy, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2019 - Response, A Contemporary Pop Up at the Colorado Governor’s Residence. Invited by Governor Jared Polis, Denver, Colorado
SOLO GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
2026 - Folded Earth, Open Sky, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2026 - Off Piste, Gallery MAR, Park City, UT
2025 - Sea to Sky - Whistler Contemporary Gallery, Whistler, BC
*2025 - Desert Modern - Vail International Gallery, Vail, CO
2025 - River Stones - 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
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
*Exhibition catalogue published.
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS (selected)
Makers Mark Distillery, Louisville, KY • Stanford Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA • San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA • Montefiore Einstein Medical Center, Bronx, NYC • Vail Health Hospital, Vail, CO • Royal Caribbean, 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• Viceroy, Aspen, CO • The SLO Hotel, San Luis Obispo, CA • Marriott Paso Robles, CA • Ritz Carlton, Denver, CO • Lodge Tower, Vail Village, Vail, CO • Hotel Oberland, Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland • Amazon HQ, Bellingham, WA • Chevron HQ, San Ramon, CA• Albemarle Corporation, Kings Mountain, NC & Charlotte, NC• Catalyst HTI, Denver, CO • Newmont Mining Corp. Denver, CO • Morrison & Foerster Law Office, Denver, CO • Imagery Winery, Sonoma, CA •Justin Vineyards, Paso Robles, CA • Squaw Valley Resort, CA
