I am a visual artist from Belgium.
My art lives on the crossroads of photography, painting, and printmaking. For over five years now, I have been exploring the cyanotype (or 'blueprint') process: a historic, analog photo technique that produces impressions directly on paper (no camera involved).
I stumbled on the cyanotype process as a way to capture my love affair with nature in bluesy images that tell the story of my itinerant life.
I thrive on solitude in wild places where nature and simplicity reign and I delight in the freedom and depth that a slower and more spontaneous life close to nature brings.
All of my art is made outside, in direct collaboration with the elements: water, wind, earth, sun. Time and chance play a big role in the creation process.
Most of my projects start with a love affair with place. I usually move to a region that I am curious about, with plenty of nature, and I root there for a while. I then make a body of work with a unique aspect of the ecosystem of that place.
I have created art in California, on the Big Island of Hawai’i, in Mallorca, in Marfa (Texas), in the Four Corners region of Colorado, in Belgium, and in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur (Mexico).
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1998 – Graduates magna cum laude with a Masters of Arts Degree in Graphic Design. Saint Lucas art school, Antwerp, Belgium.
2002 – Exhibits her graduation project ‘Gender Fact Files’ in multiple places in Belgium.
2002 – Becomes active in the women’s movement and social justice movements in Belgium.
2010 – Starts traveling extensively, mostly throughout California.
2014 – Starts taking painting and drawing classes at ‘Wisper’ school in Ghent, Belgium.
2015 – Stays in Hakalau, Hawai’i, focuses mostly on painting.
2018 – Studies cyanotype, salt printing, and other analog processes at Harvey Milk Photo Center in San Francisco, California.
2018 – Makes her first cyanotype series in Shelter Cove, California.
2018-2020 – Keeps making cyanotypes in California, Belgium, and Texas.
2020 – Filmmaker Laura Caldes makes a short film about Sara’s cyanotype art in Mallorca. Her first solo exhibit in Belgium is cancelled because of the pandemic. She is stranded in Mallorca, Spain, for about 4 months. Starts making art full time.
2020 – In Marfa, the contemporary art mecca in Texas: solo exhibit at ‘Marfa Open’ gallery.
2021 – In Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico: starts making large cyanotypes with palms. Successful solo exhibit at ‘Oystera’.
2022 – In Mesa Verde, Colorado: participates in ‘Art & Architecture’ with an outdoor cyanotype installation in Telluride, Colorado. Solo exhibit at the ‘Smiley Building’ in Durango, Colorado.
2023 – Returns to Todos Santos, Mexico and participates in ‘Art Baja’, an outdoor art exhibit by Zonamaco, at Oystera.