Age – 48
Company Name – Sarah Mills Bailey Fine Art, LLC
Position In The Company – Artist/Owner
Bio: Sarah Mills-Bailey, a native of New Orleans, followed an unusual path to find herself a painter of abstract art. It was a progression that led her in its own way from scientist to artist. Trained as a scientist, Sarah studied microbiology at LSU in Baton Rouge and, at the graduate level, at Tulane University in New Orleans. Life itself was under the microscope and under control, orderly and predictable until her older daughter was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 2.
The rigidity of work in medical research was untenable and unsustainable with an unpredictable schedule based on the occurrence of seizures. And there was a child to distract from the distress of chronic illness. Delving into the realm of arts and crafts, Sarah and her daughter searched for cast offs to reclaim with paint and fabric. Her artistic endeavors began as crafting household décor from found objects. Using paint and fabric, she applied color as a means of highlighting visual perception of form. The results were magical. Fabric then became the medium, but again the tool was color, along with texture, as she juxtaposed aspects of both in her designs.
With the birth of her second child and a nursery to decorate, she turned her focus to canvas. Having followed the creative impulse, and appreciating the joy it brought to her first child, she applied the brush strokes with a trust and anticipation perhaps unusual for a novice, led again by motherly compassion. Adding and scraping away paint as she explored not only the endeavor of painting, but beyond that, the depths of her inner experience, responding to life with all its unexpected turns. She found abstract art to be the perfect medium for expressing emotional range, not reacting to life but moving with it. The results, again, display their inspiration.
It was a natural progression to the elemental of abstract art, narrowing the focus to color itself, becoming not just the tool but the object of perception. Her abstract painting, most often layers of acrylic on canvas, smaller pieces of pastels on paper, depicts her response to her observations of the world around her, outer with its patterns and inner with its waves of emotion and integration and realignment, always interacting with her life experience
Sarah’s abstract painting style gives free rein to personal expression covering every aspect of inner experience. Her impressionism painting style allows a deep encounter with and interpretation of the physical world. Whether impressionist or abstract, her painting is a visual resonance of life’s deep currents of experience and awareness of experience. These are the vibrations that the very protoplasm of our being hold. The commonality of human existence leads the viewer of her work to meet in themselves a surfacing of the same emotion and appreciation of their own unique growth. Sarah lives in San Antonio with her husband and daughters.
Website URL : www.sarahmillsbailey.com
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