Sarah Welge
Sarah Welge creating under the name Sarah Auryn Arts is a mixed media artist who is inspired by nature, emotion and geometry.
Chicago, Illinois
I completed my Bachelors Degree of Fine Art with a concentration in Fashion Design at Columbia College Chicago in 2011. I have worked in many mediums for the past 20 years but I have recently taken to watercolors and charcoal creating mixed media paintings.
My inspiration comes from multiple sources, nature being one of them. I am not interested in creating works that are totally realistic but to create works that are more expressionist and abstract. I am interested in creating paintings that are a bit different or striking, that catch your eye and hold you there. They allow you to feel emotion and movement in the brush strokes or movement in how the color mixes with water.
Another source of inspiration for me is emotion and the geometric shapes I see in my imagination when I feel an emotion about someone, something, a situation or experience. I keep my sketchbook next to my bed to draw my ideas, as they come to me often when I am getting ready to sleep.