Collection: Sarah Soward

Sarah Soward is an oil painter with a focus on endangered wildlife and color. Her version of contemporary surrealism is characterized by expressive brush strokes, an impressionistic sense of light, and a love of wildlife. The paintings play with scale, juxtaposition, unusual animal poses, and employ a purposeful combination of color and brushwork. Much of the work centers around aligning endangered species with archetypes, deities, mythologies, and, more recently, astronomy.

Sarah holds a BFA from the California College of the Arts. She shows and competes internationally. Some highlights of her career include the acquisition of a painting by the Kentucky Derby Museum at Churchill Downs, acceptance of her work into the Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013, 2015, and 2017 exhibitions at the Mall Gallery in London, England, with her giraffe painting, Sky Creature, ending up in both the Londonist and the BBC Wildlife Magazine. Two of her rhinoceros paintings traveled with the Artist4Rhino exhibition in Italy, one of which was exhibited with the show at the Museo Civico de Storia Naturale di Genova.