White Iris, Teal Curtain

Oil

24"x18" unframed

2025

ARTIST STATEMENT
Sara seeks to capture the beauty and feeling of a time and place through color. Her work features floral studies, landscapes, and cityscapes; the subjects found in her backyard or gleaned from her travels. Painting helps her with two seemingly juxtaposed ideas: remaining present and connecting with places and people from her past. Self-expression and communication are at the core of Sara's values: through words as a linguist, through dance, or through the color in painting.

ARTIST BIO

Lancaster-based artist Sara Stichler works in watercolors and oils. Born and raised nearby on Lebanon's Northside, she was originally a Fine Arts major, recently returning to painting after a two-decade hiatus. Thinking the world didn't need another artist, she had put painting on hold to travel and begin career and family-- realizing only much later that regardless of whether the world did or did not need her art, she needed to create.

After earning a spot as an emerging artist at the Mt. Gretna Art Show in 2022, she continued to exhibit her work at outdoor shows, receiving awards at Landis Wood's Outdoor Art Show in 2024 and the Lititz Outdoor Fine Art Show in 2025. Sara was voted winner of Lancaster Art Battle in October of 2025, securing her spot as the featured artist for the Lancaster Art Battle in January of 2026. Her work has been accepted to the Baltimore Watercolor Society's 2025 Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition. She enjoys new opportunities that challenge her to improve her craft.

Favoring landscapes and florals, Sara seeks to capture the beauty, feeling, and fleetingness of time and place; the subjects found in her backyard or gleaned from travels.

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