She also had an honorarium display at Barsac Brasseries in North Hollywood. Barsac displayed art of nationally and world- renowned artists in their popular establishment located a stone’s throw from some of the world’s most prestigious movie studios.


As a child, she was always surrounded by creativity. One of her cousins was David O. Selznick, the producer of Gone With the Wind. Her father was an award-winning TV editor. Hy Fine, another cousin, was a musical director, and yet another cousin, Buck Ram, composed hits for the Platters. Creativity is deeply engrained in Sara and is reflected in her continual experimentation with form and technique.

She studied art in San Francisco and in Paris and was strongly influenced by Matisse and Geogia O’Keefe. From these influences, she developed an unconventional technique combining acrylic paints with watercolors, and eventually she added wax.


Passionate, subtle and visually complex, her paintings combine a sense of flamboyance as well as innocence. She loves flowers and paints them with an eye for the unusual. “A flower is much more to me than what most people perceive it to be. I see the inner spirit of each individual blossom. It’s the essence within that I see and seek to capture.” Her creations might be described as floral fantasies.

They are not intended to be representational renderings. The goal of her painting is to perpetuate the unique splendor of each flower in all its natural mystery and mystique. Her textured technique is intended to make the pictures pop out at the viewer in much the same way that beholding a living flower commands one’s immediate attention. Indeed, Sara’s renderings of flowers seem to have a life of their own.


Her process is one of layering. Each layer consists of a different medium. She begins with a modeling paste and then proceeds with watercolors and acrylics, in various combinations, continually building up the image so that the final result is almost three-dimensional.

The combined use of watercolors and acrylics allows her to achieve a color saturation that transcends the individual effect of each of the mediums’ individual pigmentation possibilities. Only when she is satisfied with coloration, imagery and technical substrate does she employ the waxing process.

This involves a complicated layering technique all its own, and entails a time consuming process of hand-brushing. The absolute final step is a secret. (Because of this, Sara’s paintings can resist high temperatures and do not require being put under glass, although she advises not to put her paintings outdoors or in a window).