Sarah J. Webber was born in St. Paul, MN in 1958 and had an early exposure to the arts and the outdoors. Annual trips west to Wyoming and the Rocky Mountains as a child fostered a love of animals and nature, especially horses, which Sarah drew fervently as a teenager and placed on her bedroom walls. Her passion for the west finally won over and Sarah moved to Jackson, Wyoming in 1987 and started to study with very noted artist such as Bill Freeman, Scott Christensen and Matt Smith. This led to a decade working in the art world, and finally in 2001, while living in California, she made a decision to paint full time. She credits the artist Glenn Dean, with whom she worked with closely in California, as her most important influence in her formal art training.
Through hard work, Sarah discovered she had a unique, colorful and painterly style. She focuses on expressive oil paintings and portraits of animals, mostly cows, burrows and wildlife, which possess personality, charm and even humor. The past eight years has seen her work accepted into such prestigious shows as “Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West” (2009 and upcoming 2010) at the Desert Caballeros Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona; American Miniatures of Settler’s West in Tucson, Arizona; The International Museum of Contemporary Master of Fine Art Salon International 2007 at Greenhouse Gallery in San Antonio, Texas.
“I see my artwork as an opportunity to make my patrons smile and feel joy…the passion I feel in painting my animals is something I want to share…those who love animals will feel my purpose and understand this love.”