sarah luczaj phd
artist, writer, creative regenerator
@emmabrownphotography
fresh, secret, dark, wild, new start, sunshiny, falling, loss, laughter, spacious, spring, tangled up, longing, essence of red...
just send me some words, themes, thoughts or feelings you would like to see in paint... and we will discuss the process, cost, size, and any questions you have.
i can produce acrylic/mixed media or ink paintings of any size, to fit your space. on canvas or high quality watercolour paper.
testimonials
" Sarah captured the sense of my words and feelings I desired for my painting beautifully and perfectly.
It is a window into the past, present and future. I feel calm and energised by it.
I am lucky and grateful to own this stunning art work. Thank you Sarah" A
Naming the Roses 'What you seek is seeking you. ' —Rumi
I am completely smitten with this painting and the way she looks as the cover of my first full-length poetry collection! I had been feeling nervous about a cover design since I felt unclear about what would best serve the book. In the midst of emailing Sarah about my lack of clarity, I began to get a picture in my mind’s eye of what I wanted—something like a rose bush or roses swirling in red, maybe coming from stark black on white canes, but maybe just swirling red.
Later that afternoon, while checking Sarah’s website to confirm something related to the (glorious) blurb she’d written for the book, there it was! I couldn’t believe my eyes! Juxtaposed with a stark black on white painting that looked (to me) like rose canes was this incredible painting of swirling roses in vibrant red. They billowed like red rose clouds with touches of black that added the exact right amount of foreboding to complement the roses’ beauty. My body began vibrating! It was as if Sarah had known what I’d wanted long before I did. She is exquisite, the absolute perfect cover for my book. I still get a thrill every time I look at her there, wrapping her arms around my book of poems. Kim Noriega, author of 'Naming the Roses:Poems'
I have positioned 'The Comet' on the wall in my bedroom so that she’s the first thing I see waking up every morning. I love gazing into her depths, which I find simultaneously calming and inspiring, while I contemplate the day ahead. Too, I love allowing myself to become mesmerized by her shimmering light at mid-day, sitting at my writing desk, sipping a cup of honey-sweetened Paris tea. She reconnects me with beauty when the busyness of life threatens to overwhelm me.
Sarah painted The Comet using her phenomenal intuitive painting process in collaboration with me tapping into my felt sense of what might serve my creativity. I found the whole process to be revelatory. I gave Sarah a short list of colors that gave me a tingly, “that’s it!” feeling. We touched base back and forth, adding a bit more of this color or that, always tuning into that felt sense as a kind of north star.
The result is a painting that speaks to me in a way I’ve never experienced before. My Comet always seems to give me exactly what I need in the moment—peace, invigoration, or insight—often accompanied by a feeling of transcending the here and now. Sometimes I see in her a beautiful eye that gleams back at me with wonder and love. Sometimes she’s a portal to other dimensions. Sometimes she’s a flaming comet, rocketing me into the great beyond. Kim Noriega