Sarah E. Wain
Sarah E. Wain is a painter working primarily in oil, known for luminous still-life studies of everyday food and detailed watercolors of freshwater fish and butterflies. Her work finds the quiet beauty in ordinary subjects — a cracked egg, a ripe blackberry, the iridescence of a trout.
Alongside her studio practice, Sarah teaches high school art and art history, where she shares her love of looking closely and making by hand. She paints from life whenever possible, building color in thin, deliberate glazes.
Her paintings are held in private collections across the United States and have appeared in regional exhibitions and galleries. She works and paints in the Northeast.
Artist Statement
I paint the things we pass by without a second glance. A donut, a bowl of berries, a fish pulled from a cold river — these are small subjects, but under close attention they become worthy of the same care we give grand ones.
Working from life, I build each piece slowly, layer over layer, until the light feels true. My hope is that a viewer pauses a little longer over something familiar, and finds it briefly unfamiliar again — vivid, particular, and worth keeping.