Sarah Nicole / Quiet Earth Bloom

Sarah Nicole is a Minneapolis-based artist whose work bridges the emotional and the elemental through a distinct, process-driven approach to painting. She received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2018.

This body of work is a continuation of the Dusk Blooms collection, guided by floral silhouettes as symbolic vessels of feminine experience and resilience. The compositions unfold at scale, evoking both the beauty of the organic and the physicality of the body. Working with a soak-stain technique, Sarah uses water as a collaborator — flooding, diluting, and staining her canvas in gestures shaped as much by gravity and evaporation as by her own hand. The interiors of the silhouettes are revealed by the slow withdrawal of water, tracing the residue of movement and time.

In this practice, time becomes visible: in the pooling of pigment, in the edge qualities left by evaporated washes, and in the subtle transformation of canvas as it absorbs and releases. Each painting holds this record of presence and dissolution, reflecting cycles of becoming and release.

These paintings carry a contemplative, grounded presence — earthy in tone, generous in scale, and meditative in its effect. Each piece rewards time spent close to its surface, offering visceral detail in the pooling, feathering, and subtle gestures that only water can create.