Sarah Ingraham is a Maine-raised, Brooklyn-based painter whose bold still lifes, murals, rugs, and wallpaper designs pulse with color and decorative invention. Shaped by a childhood on the coast of Maine and sharpened by studies at the University of Vermont and Central Saint Martins in London, Sarah Ingraham builds compositions through improvisation — throwing down a vase, chasing the color, and letting pattern take over from there.
Her work spans genres and formats with equal confidence, informed by a deep engagement with ceramics, textiles, and printmaking traditions from across cultures. Represented by Portland Art Gallery, Sarah Ingraham creates paintings that reward immediate looking and slow return — vivid on first glance, increasingly layered the longer you stay.
What does it take to build a studio practice rooted in exuberance, discipline, and the refusal to plan too far ahead?