Sarah Grenzeback
Tour Stop Number: 212 or 3 days: 3
Type of Stop: Artist
Category: Mixed Media and Painting
Website 1: https://www.sarahgrenzeback.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahgrenzeback_art
Plein Air Oil Paintings, Mixed Media
Plein air oil painter Sarah Grenzeback is inspired to get out her palette knife and easel by the open skies, pure light, and rich colors of the wild New Mexico landscape. She paints on site typically in one session, seeking to capture the moment … before the sun moves, or it starts raining. Her favorite pastime is to camp along the Chama River, roll out of her tent in the morning, and find a new spot to set up her easel. She is grateful to the land that surrounds and holds us through everything. Sarah also creates abstract mixed-media work: she enjoys the process of discovery through letting her body, emotions and senses lead and allowing the image to emerge from the process. Since she was little, Sarah always wanted to be an artist like her grandmother, who worked with both oils and mixed media. Sarah studied art and oil painting at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, The Art League School of Alexandria, VA, and with several New Mexico plein air artists. She also has a masters in Art Therapy from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, and is a practicing therapist.