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Sarah LaPierre

As a Florida native, Sarah LaPierre’s love and admiration for the natural landscape has been a constant inspiration for her work. She is forever fascinated by the vibrant colors, textures, and patterns that exist within Florida’s diverse ecosystems, from the sandy beaches and rolling waves to the lush greenery of the Everglades.

Growing up in a family of artists, she was fortunate to have early exposure to the creative process and a supportive arts community. Her father, Joseph, was a beloved local painter and Sarah spent countless hours in his studio and among his peers at art shows and exhibitions. It was in these formative years that she developed both a lifelong love of expressing her creative abilities and a deep appreciation for the power of art to connect people with the world and communicate feelings such as joy, curiosity, and respect.

“As a painter, I work primarily with acrylic impasto techniques, using heavy layers of paint to create bold textures and movement across my canvas.” Sarah is most known for her “thick paint” style (that’s her social media monicker), but recently enjoys creating with found objects, layered into her paintings. These objects add a sense of nostalgia and discovery and encourage viewers to take a closer look. Both in how trash can be made into treasure, and how our natural spaces deserve our consideration and protection from manmade waste.

Sarah’s paintings are collected internationally in the homes, businesses, and private
collections of many wonderful art enthusiasts. Her work has been exhibited across Florida through fine art festivals and gallery exhibitions for over a decade, and has been featured in publications and media outlets such as Modern Luxury Palm Beach, South Florida Live NBC 6, Luxe Magazine, The Palm Beach Post, The Atlantic Current, WPTV NBC 5, Florida Weekly, The Palm Beacher, Jupiter Magazine, WPBF ABC 25, Florida Coast Magazine, and others.

Through her art, Sarah has been a part of many philanthropic ventures and has helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for local non-profit and charitable organizations such as Quantum House, Piper’s Angels Foundation, Coral Reef Institute, Hospitality Helping Hands, Promise Fund of Florida, Loggerhead Marine Life Center, Place of Hope and others.

In October 2023, Sarah stepped into the role of curator for the first time when she produced and curated the successful and widely attended exhibit “Pink Waves” that brought together the works of twenty-two South Florida women artists in a month long showcase in West Palm Beach.

In 2024, Sarah became host of the ArtiGras Podcast. A platform to feature change making creative guests and have exciting conversations covering all areas of arts and culture in Palm Beach County.

You can connect with Sarah online through her Instagram @thickpaint and find her attending as many local art events as possible. She currently resides in Palm Beach Gardens with her partner Michael, and works out of a private studio whith her dog and two cats close by.