Biography

Her Mi’kmaq ancestors emerged from the eastern lands, but Sara was born in the West. Growing up amidst the canyons and plains of the Southwest, the warm desert rains of Arizona, and the whipping winds of New Mexico became the center of her universe. Descended from performers in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show,. Sara’s great, great grandfather Sequah performed with Buffalo Bill Cody for crowds and sold a patented cure-all ‘Prairie Flower’ in blue glass bottles bearing his name.

Painting till dawn in her one-hundred-year-old cabin in the woods surrounded by family heirlooms, cabinet cards of ancestors on buffalo robes that sometimes live again in her paintings, a flintlock rifle passed down through a hundred hands, she attests that the characters in her family tree as well as a passion for history as the reason for her subject matter.

Sara has been awarded ‘Best of Show’ in the Western Gallery annual exhibition and the Sigler Museum purchase award as well as created artwork for a myriad of galleries and collectors from Guns N Roses to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. She has created art for a number of well-known brands and musicians from Gretsch Guitars to Colter Wall, her work can be found in museums and many noted private collections.