Artist Bio
About Me
Sarah Field Sonnenberg is an oil painter, muralist, live event painter and art educator based in Buffalo, NY. Her work blends portraiture with floral forms in a soft, double-exposure style, exploring themes of memory, emotion, and impermanence.
Inspired by women’s stories and the poetry of writers like Mary Oliver, Sarah’s paintings reflect the quiet beauty of life’s fleeting moments. Her work has been exhibited throughout Western New York and in cities including Chicago, Boston, Palm Beach, and the Bahamas.
Artist Statement
My current series explores the space where beauty, memory, and emotion quietly meet. In this series of oil paintings, faces blend with flowers in a double-exposure style that softens the boundary between the human and the natural world. The effect is dreamlike, with delicate forms suspended in time, inviting viewers to pause and feel. Inspired by poetry, especially the words of women writers like Mary Oliver, each painting is titled after a line of verse, adding another layer of reflection. These are not portraits of specific people, but of shared emotion—grief, nostalgia, softness, joy. They speak to the small, private moments that shape us, and the quiet intensity of living in a body that changes. Like flowers, our lives are temporary. Yet within that impermanence lies something beautiful. Anatomy of Flowers asks us to consider the fleeting nature of what we find most meaningful, and to find stillness, even grace, in that transience.