KIRSTEN SADLIER ART
The Studio as Sanctuary
From Coast to Coast
Place has shaped my palette as much as emotion has.
I’m Kirsten, a mixed media artist based in Jupiter, Florida.
I grew up on Long Island, where drawing became my way of focusing, processing, and finding calm. For years, creativity lived alongside other careers and roles, never fully leaving, always waiting.
Over time, life carried me across coasts, into motherhood, and eventually back to art as the center of everything. Painting shifted from something I tried to control into something I allowed to unfold. Letting go of expectation opened space for intuition, movement, and honesty to lead.
Living near the ocean continues to shape my work. Surfing introduced a new rhythm and a new surface. Reclaimed surfboards, already marked by motion and time, became a canvas for transformation. Painting them feels like a dialogue between past and present, utility and expression.
Today, my work lives in homes and shared spaces. I create pieces meant to feel grounding, warm, and alive. Art that settles into a room quietly, revealing itself over time.
Surfboards entered my practice through a deep connection to the ocean.
Some work wants to live beyond a single frame.
My abstract work is slower and more layered.
Each painting builds gradually, responding to color, space, and light. I’m drawn to softness, negative space, and the way a piece shifts throughout the day. No two paintings are ever the same, and that openness is essential to the process.
These works are meant to be lived with.
Art shaped by movement, memory, and the ocean.
Art shaped by movement, memory, and the ocean.