Gallery

Some examples of Sara's art

Commissioned animals, painted portraits, and odds and ends.

Captions describe each picture. Titles, sizes, and available works are in her Shopify shop.

New from the markets

A fresh look at the booth

Step inside Sara's latest market setup: portraits, prints, hand-painted magnets and woodburned pieces, all gathered under the black canopy.

Explore the booth

Inside the Paint & Pyre booth, with a black cat banner, portrait displays and a table of small artwork — The latest booth setup, with Sara's banner, artwork and little finds.

Commissions

Pet portraits

Sara loves to paint dogs and cats- she tries to make the pricing accessible. See the gallery for examples.

Painted portrait of a golden retriever in a purple bandana on a mountain trail, a lake and a snow capped peak behind him — Golden retriever on the trail

Watercolour portrait of a small long haired dog in a pink harness, teeth bared, against pink and purple rays — Small dog in a pink harness

Painted portrait of a border collie, mouth open, against lavender bokeh — Border collie

A long haired tabby cat with green eyes, painted on a round panel with her name Luna lettered in red — Luna, painted on a round

Watercolour portrait of a black and tan chihuahua snarling, against yellow and teal — Chihuahua on yellow and teal

A tabby cat sniffing her own painted portrait, framed in gold and standing on a wooden floor — A cat meeting her own portrait

A brown and white cat sitting in a window bed beside a small painted card of herself — A cat with her own card

Her own work

Paintings and oddities

What gets painted when nobody has commissioned anything. Kitsch, horror, and a great deal of colour, usually all at once. Sara loves to paint things that make her laugh, and she hopes to pass that along to her viewers and make a connection.

A hare split down the middle, one half pale under a starry sky with golden oak leaves, the other half black against grey smoke with a burning red eye — The hare, halved

A figure in a white cat mask and lace sitting among red cushions, in front of a heavy red curtain — The figure in the cat mask

A man sitting in a hot tub holding a machete, surrounded by rubber ducks in sunglasses, under string lights and red autumn trees — Hot tub, ducks, and a machete

Two white hares facing each other in the snow in front of a clapboard church, its roof on fire under a full moon — The hares and the burning church

A grey wolf snarling beside a pale sleeping figure, among mushrooms and autumn leaves — Wolf in the mushrooms

A grey and white creature with a long curling trunk and red markings, coiled on orange sand under a blue sky — The coiled creature

A Furby painted on a carved wooden heart, purple fur, teal eyes and a yellow beak — Furby on a wooden heart

Snarl on orange

On paper

Watercolours and small work

Paper rather than canvas, and mostly small enough to hold in one hand. Landscapes, birds, and animals, painted between the larger commissions.

Watercolour of a long haired grey cat sitting upright against a red and yellow ground, with a white sun behind her — Grey cat in the sun

Watercolour of a headland rock in sea mist, with elk grazing on the wet sand and beach grass in the foreground — Elk on the beach in mist

Watercolour of a black cat with amber eyes lying under the gold and red branches of a Christmas tree — Black cat under the tree

Ink and watercolour of a tabby cat curled up asleep, on a pale blue ground — Tabby asleep

An opossum carrying five young on her back along a log, in ink and watercolour on green — Opossum and her young

Watercolour of a pale hairless cat leaning into a basin to reach a folded green paper boat, a tap and teal tiles behind — The cat and the paper boat

A painting of an opossum about the size of a postage stamp, in an ornate gold frame, held in the palm of a hand — Opossum miniature, in the hand

Ink and watercolour of a chickadee perched on a bare branch beside a birch trunk — Chickadee on a branch

A pale green dragon holding a gold orb, painted on purple and blue with four point stars around it — Dragon with a gold orb

The tarot deck

Cards from the deck

Three of the seventy eight, painted one card at a time, and a photograph of two of them once they had been printed.

A hand painted tarot card lettered P, a grey tabby cat in a blue hood and a plumed hat, holding a gold cup with a fish in it — A page, painted as a grey tabby

A hand painted tarot card lettered Q, a tabby cat in an orange rabbit hood holding a pentacle, on a yellow ground with red flowers — A queen, painted as a tabby

A hand painted tarot card lettered P, a calico cat in a yellow cloak and a plumed cap, holding a green branch — A page, painted as a calico

Two printed tarot cards lying on a wooden desk, one a yowling cat, one a siamese cat asleep among five pentacles — Two of the cards, printed

The other half of the name

Wood burning

The pyre in Paint & Pyre. Burned into timber a line at a time, with no colour and no way to undo a stroke.

Two winged serpents coiled around each other among compass stars and flames, burned into a pale wooden panel — Winged serpents, burned into wood

Four wood burned coasters laid out on a dark table, three with mushrooms and one with a frog on a tree stump — Four coasters, burned in a batch

Serving board, boot and horse

A cat in a ruff and a pointed hat sitting among fish, bubbles and four point stars, burned into a pale round of timber — Clown cat, burned into a round

Commissions

Portraits of people

Family portraits and wedding portraits: Pricing varies depending on size and medium. Due to the nature of painting humans, you'll need to tell her your idea before she can give you a quote.

Painted portrait of a bearded man holding two small girls, in a gold field — A father and his girls

Painted portrait of a young woman holding a kitten — Young woman with a kitten

In person

At the market

Originals on the walls, prints and cards on the table, magnets and wood burned rounds in between. Different market most weekends, and the stall goes up the same way every time.

The Paint & Pyre stall in daylight under a black canopy, her printed banner across the front and racks of prints and magnets on the table — The stall set up in daylight.

The stall after dark under a dark canopy, lit from inside, with framed originals on the side walls and a painted moon portrait on the right — Another market, after dark.

Racks of prints and hand painted button magnets on a board headed Magnets, on her table in daylight — Prints, cards, and a board of magnets

Her table indoors, lit purple, with a spinner of button magnets, racks of prints and a hanging banner with her cat mark — The table set up indoors

The black canopy set up on a street in front of a red brick building, with two customers looking at the prints — A street market, with customers

Want one of your own?

Commissions are open all year. Send a photograph of who you would like her to paint, and Sara will tell you what the next steps are.

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