Sarah Poynter’s creative life began with pencil and paper. She grew up in California's foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in a multi-generational home with a grandfather playing piano and a grandmother encouraging nightly drawing sessions around the dinner table. From a portrait-artist mother, a designer sister, a singing aunt, to a cousin who plays every instrument in the band, it was a household of creative inspiration in every corner.
Although Sarah went on to earn a BA in English literature from the University of Oregon, a teaching credential and spent years living in Spain and later an acting career in Hollywood, she always carried her drawing notebook and pencil. Flipping through the pages of Sarah’s art book, one can see the friends, animals, architecture, and scenery she encountered along the way.
Sarah’s creative career pivoted alongside other notable milestones: marriage and starting a family. A change in mediums to acrylics and a change in styles to abstract led Sarah to where she is today: painting in acrylics, mostly abstracts, on oversized canvasses. Sarah paints in layers to create textured work to capture a feeling of a moment in time and space.