Artist Bio
Sara Roberts
Sara Roberts is an Australian artist known for her luminous, layered oil paintings that explore the quiet poetry of nature. From her studio on the South Coast of New South Wales, she paints what she calls Reflective Realms—dreamlike spaces where land, water, and memory dissolve into one another.
Raised across continents—from Mexico and France to Sweden and Australia—Sara’s work is shaped by movement, contrast, and a deep sensitivity to light and place. Her paintings emerge slowly, built in translucent layers over many months, and invite a sense of stillness, intimacy, and reflection.
Sara holds an MFA in Painting from Sydney College of the Arts, completed under the mentorship of Lindy Lee. Her work has been exhibited in Australia and Los Angeles and is held in private collections across France, the UK, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Dubai, and Hong Kong. In 2023, she won the Bluethumb Landscape Art Prize, and in 2025 her work was featured in Of Land and Longing, curated by Create Magazine.
Artist Statement
I describe my work as Reflective Realms—spaces where landscape, water, and memory dissolve into one another. These are not fixed places but shifting sensations: light playing across the surface, a reflection glimpsed and gone, the quiet feeling of being both inside and outside the scene.
I paint slowly, and my process unfolds over time, layering thin veils of oil like sediment or memory. I try to hold stillness—to honour the kind of pause that lets you feel the sun on your skin or notice how water catches the sky. In these moments, something deeper emerges: a trace of something forgotten, a connection to the unseen.
I’m not interested in capturing the landscape—I want to feel it. Raised between oceans and seasons, my visual language is shaped by movement and change. I’m drawn to softness, to blurred edges, to the in-between. I want each painting to offer an opening—a space where the viewer might recognise a piece of themselves, held in light.
