Sara Everett’s paintings include a distinct process of destruction; she cuts and tears her paintings apart.  The destroyed painting then becomes the fabric of something new, which is literally mended into sewn collages of endangered animals, plants or landscapes.

With canvas or paper, the sutures holding these pieces together have repaired the damage, but the mending is visible. Her pieces act as totems for species and places that are barely hanging on by a thread.

Everett’s work has been shown in Seattle galleries and internationally in Ireland, Finland and Monaco. She has been an awardee of the Vermont Studio Center Artist Fellowship and a printmaking residency in Co. Donegal, Ireland.

As well as being a working painter, she also consults as a curator for real estate development in the Seattle area, and serves on the Board of Directors of Seattle’s Uptown Arts District.

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