“Painting is how I process my emotions and filter the world around me.”
I approach painting intuitively, mapping out ideas and impressions into color fields, shapes, and marks. I spend time editing, receptive to new direction. Looking for color relationships and sometimes the unexpected. Certain elements in this visual dialogue remain unresolved, so I slow down and continue in conversation. Patience, restraint, and risk carry equal weight as I move through this process and my challenge is to be open to all possibilities. My work is complete when it offers the viewer intimate and unexpected spaces to explore.
“Simple forms of beauty can easily be overlooked in an ever changing and challenging world.”
My earliest inspiration to paint came from the landscape and light on Cape Cod, where I grew up surrounded by color fields of water, marsh, beach, and sky. While nature is still important to my work, I also seek out different cultures and other artists -- both inspire and challenge my own creative expression. I have a particular affinity with painters who are using formal means to express their emotions. Today, striving to create something beautiful with ones own emotional vocabulary feels imperative.
Sarah Hinckley is an abstract painter living and working on Cape Cod Massachusetts. Sarah received an MFA from Columbia University, a BFA from Tufts University and a Diploma from the SMFA Boston. Her work is in numerous corporate and private collections. Drawn to Abstract Expressionism in her early years of study in Boston and New York, Sarah began exploring color fields, inspired by artists such as Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin. As her work evolved, she began pushing the boundaries, developing a visual language of her own. While still fully embracing abstraction, Sarah incorporates references to nature in her compositions. Hints of shadows, organic shapes, and the changing elements are woven into expressive abstraction. Sarah's approach to the creative process is introspective. She engages at length with her paintings, allowing each interaction to guide her next move, slowly building colors, translucency, and depth. Each stage of the painting becomes a composition -- a mix of bleeds, lines, incidental marks, and intentional brushstrokes. The final result comes together to create the complex surface interaction that is a hallmark of her work. Sarah's work has been acquired by a wide range of prestigious private and public collections across the U.S and beyond, a testament to the universal themes her work explores and its appeal to diverse audiences. From Gallery Koyanagi in Tokyo and companies such as The Durst Organization, Pfizer, and VeriSign, to hospitality and medical institutions such as L.A.'s Hotel Bel-Air and Memorial Sloan Kettering, Sarah's paintings have a permanent home alongside other significant artworks, connecting with audiences worldwide.