I grew up in Europe, where art, movement, and spiritual practice shaped my early sensibility. My work continues from that lineage: attention to the inner worlds, to the body’s knowing, and to the transcendent movements of consciousness that lie beneath ordinary perception.

I received a BFA in painting and performance art at the Arts & Consciousness program at JFK University in Berkeley, California. My background as a movement artist, dancer, and bodyworker informs the way I see. Much of my work begins in embodied awareness — in the subtle shifts of sensation and early, embryonic memory — and it extends toward the archetypal fields where image, pattern, and presence converge.

Painting, for me, is a form of inquiry. The forms that emerge often arise from the nonverbal layers of experience, from felt traces of origin, and from the deeper, primordial currents that move through consciousness. They belong as much to the body as to the unseen.

Meditation and long-standing spiritual practice guide the process of my work: interior, meeting myself, and this current journey humanity is on. What appears on the canvas is less a depiction than an encounter — with depth, the subtle mechanics of being, and with the inner knowing that precedes narrative.

I live and work between Oakland and Budapest.

CONTACT

Oakland, CA & Budapest, Hungary
+1-510-610-0320

sarahtheismann.studio@gmail.com