Studio Information
ICB/ART Building
315
About The Artist
“You’re alive, be alive”.
– words I have learned to live by through deep grief, and my past experience in palliative care.
Flowers are radiant even as they begin their quiet descent into decay.
As I witness this unfolding cycle of life, my abstract florals are a witness to their vibrant, fleeting moment of life, holding onto it before it is gone.
Nature reveals, again and again, that birth, death, and rebirth are inseparable, each dependent on the other.
In grief, there is a strange comfort in this rhythm: what is lost is not gone, but transformed. I feel a connection to those I have lost in something as simple and immediate as a flower, and that their moment of beauty is only one aspect of the whole.
There is darkness in this truth but nature gives comfort demonstrating that the life that fades lives on in a new form.
Originally from London, UK, Sarah McAllister is an expressive, gestural nature painter who works in acrylics, watercolor and oil.
Her work is a personal reflection on themes of grief and loss. A poetic exploration that takes into consideration the fleeting nature of beauty. Her use of vibrant color convincing us that vitality can only exist in the present as all things pass through the cycle of life.
After moving to California in 2000 Sarah earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in painting with distinction from the California College of the Arts (CCA) and has established herself as an emerging artist in the Bay Area, California. She is currently a member of City Art Gallery in San Francisco, ICB Artist Association, Sausalito Center for the Arts and the Oakland Art Association. She works from her studio in Sausalito at ICB/ART overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
Discover more on my Instagram page @sarahmcallisterart
Oil Paint, Acrylic Paint, Watercolor, Pastel, Drawing, Mixed Media
Contact Information
Exhibitions & Press
PUBLICATIONS
2026
Marin Open Studios magazine interview
2025
The Trout Museum Monthly magazine – Made to Order Project.
Art Seen, Autumn (Fall) Edition
EXHIBITIONS
2026
UC Law, San Francisco, CA. Group Show.
City Art Gallery, San Francisco, Group Show – January
The Sound Room, Oakland, CA. Group Show and Chair.
Marin Open Studios, ICB ART, Sausalito, CA.
Highland’s Country Club, Oakland, CA. Solo Show.
2025
The Trout Museum Made to Order Project, Appleton, WI
Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, CA .
Juror David Savellano Award: 1st Prize
Highland’s Country Club, Oakland, CA. Solo show
Moonstruck Fine Jewelry, Mill Valley, CA. Solo Show
City Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Group shows – January, April, May, October, November, December
The Sound Room, Oakland, CA.
Juror Robert Bradsby – Award Honorable mention
Marin Open Studios, ICB ART, Sausalito, CA
ICB ART Open Studios, Sausalito, CA.
ICB ART Artist at Work Days, Sausalito, CA.
2024
Zhou B Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Juror and curator Sergio Gomez
San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, San Francisco, CA. Group show.
A show to create a harmonious space in the victim and support lounges
The Sound Room, Oakland, CA. Solo show.
Highland’s Country Club, Oakland, CA. Solo Show.
City Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Group shows – January, April, September, November, December
San Pablo Community Center, Richmond, CA. Group Show.
Juror: Anne Austin Pinata – Award: honorable mention
ICB ART Artist at Work Days, Sausalito, CA.
Jen Tough, Santa Fe, NM. Open Studios
Uptown Fine Art Gallery, Oakland CA. Art Murmur – East Bay Open Studios
2023
Alameda County Law Library, Oakland, CA.
Jurors – David and Karen Savellano – award 1st Prize
Uptown Fine Art Gallery, Oakland, CA. Group show.
Highland’s Country Club, Oakland, CA. Solo Show.
City Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Group shows – September, December
2022
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. Summer Exhibition Finalist
Orinda Public Library , Orinda, CA. Group Show
Highland’s Country Club Spring 2024
Oakland Art Assocaition
“Emerging” – solo show
Zhou B Gallery, Chicago, IL Spring 2024
Juror and curator Sergio Gomez
AwakenIng Earth, Narratives of Spring
Alameda County Law Library January 2024
Oakland Art Association juried group show
Jurors – David and Karen Savellano
New Beginnings 2024 –
Awarded First Prize
Uptown Fine Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, Fall 2023
A Sense of Place group show
Highland’s Country Club Spring 2023
Oakland Art Association
“Dancing in the Moonlight” – solo show
City Art Gallery, San Francisco 2023
Group shows – September, December
Royal Academy , London, Summer Exhibition 2022
Finalist
Orinda Public Library 2022
Oakland Art Association
group show
More than three years ago
Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, California
Luka’s, Oakland, California
CCA gallery, Oakland, California
PRIVATE COLLECTORS
USA: California, Chicago, Maryland, Washington D.C., Hawaii, Boston, Minneapolis.
International: Canada, United Kingdom, France, Poland, Colombia, New Zealand.
