Original art, prints, and pyrography by Sara Gilbreath
Emotional maximalism, humor, and heart in vivid color.
Sara Gilbreath is a traditional artist operating out of Beaverton, OR. She creates lovingly crafted pet portraits that capture the soul, family portraits, and a steady supply of odd, nostalgic, and whimsical paintings. Right now most of her attention is going into a tarot deck made entirely of hand-painted cat portraits.
The deck
Feline Familiar Tarot
78 unique, hand-painted cat commissions forming a complete Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Artwork is finished and ready to publish.
Every card in the deck is somebody's actual cat. People pick the card they want, Sara paints their cat, and the original goes back to them in the post. Seventy eight cats, seventy eight owners, one full Rider-Waite deck.
78cards
- Major Arcana22
- Wands14
- Cups14
- Swords14
- Pentacles14
- Cards
- 78, a full Rider-Waite deck
- Structure
- 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor, in four suits of 14
- Card size
- 2.75 by 4.75 inches
- Medium
- Hand painted watercolour, one original per card
- Subject
- A real cat, painted from its owner's photograph
- Status
- Artwork finished and ready to publish
Still open
Custom Tarot Cat Portrait
$15
Choose which tarot card you would like your cat painted as. You get a 2.5 by 3.5 inch hand painted watercolour original in the post, and 15 percent off the printed deck when it goes to press.
See which cards are leftWork
Paintings, portraits, and pyrography
Acrylic on canvas, watercolour on paper, and pyrography on wood. Commissions on one side, and originals on the other.
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Details from Sara's own work. Full pieces and currently available works are on her Shopify
Commissions
Custom pet paintings
Send reference photos, get a painting back. The prices below are what she charges today, taken straight from her shop.
Family portraits, wedding portraits, and larger canvases are priced by size and by how many faces are in them. If you have a custom request, she can offer custom pricing.
Meet your artist
Sara Gilbreath
Through vivid, surreal, and kitsch-inspired paintings, I explore the tension between sincerity and satire. My work transforms emotion, humor, and the grotesque into rich visual storytelling.
She works out of Beaverton, Oregon, sells at markets around Portland, and takes commissions year round. The name is literal. Paint for the canvases, pyre for the wood burning.
In person
Look for the black cat canopy
Paint & Pyre goes out to markets and art fairs around Portland throughout the year. Originals on the walls, prints and cards on the table, hand painted magnets and wood burned rounds in between. Dates go up on Instagram before they go anywhere else.
Where to find me
Three places to buy the work
Each one does a slightly different job, which is why they are all still open.
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Get in touch
For commissions, market bookings, or a question about the deck, email is best. She reads Instagram messages too, eventually.