Sarah Fielding-Gunn

In 1995, I discovered the richness and luminosity that can be accomplished using pastels.

I passionately applied myself to learning all there is to know about this medium.

My understanding of the pastel medium was influenced and encouraged by

Rosalie Nadeau, Lois Griffel, Carole Chisholm Garvey, Anne Heywood, and Jane Lincoln

I am fascinated by light on anything. I am tempted and moved to paint people, places and things,

looking for those high contrast situations or ethereal refractions of light

that speak of the inner things which touch us all.

I am equally drawn to all media, moving with comfort from oils to water media,

 pastels to colored pencils or graphite, preferring to let my subject dictate which form it will take.

In 1996, I founded the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod,

to provide a vehicle for Pastel artists to exhibit and explore their works in that medium.

I served as its President from conception in 1995 until 2002.

My pastels have been in many local and national exhibits including:

Artist Member and juried exhibitions at Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, '94, '97, '98, ‘01

Received Honorable Mention, ‘01

All New England Exhibition National Juried, '94, '97, '98, '99

Falmouth Artist Guild, All Cape Exhibit, ’01, Honorable Mention

Artist Member & juried exhibitions at

Creative Arts Center, Chatham, '94, '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, ‘00, ‘01

Leo Diehl exhibit in the Gallery of the Creative Arts Center in Chatham, '95, '96, '97, '98, '99

"Women Creating, a Celebration of Cape Cod Women" '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, '00

in the gallery at C3TV,

at Mashpee Commons, and in the Cahoon Museum,

and the Rehabilitation Hospital of Cape & the Islands

Members Exhibition, Connecticut Pastel Society, '96, '97, '98, '99

Renaissance in Pastels, Connecticut Pastel Society, '98, '99

National Exhibits sponsored by:

the Midwest Pastel Society, '96

"For Pastels Only on Cape Cod" at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham, '96, '97, '98, '99, '01, '02

Received Honorable Mention '96, Award of Merit '98, '99

As part of the exhibitions of 21 in Truro from 1998 to present

including exhibitions at the Selectman's Gallery in West Barnstable, MA

The Highland House Museum,

The Cahoon Museum,

and The Cape Cod Museum of Art 2005

I am a Signature Member of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod,

an Artist Member of the Cape Cod Art Association,

a member of the Creative Arts Center,

a member of the Portsmouth Arts Guild,

and an original member of the artist group "21 in Truro"

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"In my eyes the sky is the color of a rainbow!"