About Sara Czerny

Sara Czerny, watercolour artist, owner of the page

“…and then I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

- Vincent van Gogh

ARTIST BIO

Sara Czerny, born in 1983, is a watercolour and mixed media artist based in Lower Saxony, Germany. As a daughter of a skilled amateur painter, she has been in contact with art since childhood, and her instinctual understanding of aesthetics and composition has initially led her to seek career as a digital designer but it wasn’t until she got into watercolour that she eventually found her unique voice.

Her work is inspired by the lovingly carved details of the Nature’s creations: blooming flowers, thriving plants, birds in glorious feathers, tiny insects, ripe fruits and quiet still life scenes. Her style is often described as whimsical and possessing certain fairytale quality. She embraces soft washes, carefree spatters, playful spills and wispy ink lines gently defining the detail. Parts of her paintings are often left sketched out or undefined, fading into the whiteness of the canvas like an unfinished sentence that is both uttered and retracted, left there hanging mid air between the artist and the audience.

Sara is constantly improving her skills by putting herself to try new, more advanced techniques, attending online and in-person workshops, and has successfully sold original works and prints both regionally and online. Currently she is expanding her professional practice, participating in regional and international art contests, and preparing her first independent collections.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I’m drawn to the gentlesness of watercolour, its ethereal, dreamlike beauty. The flow, the luminosity, the softness with which the colour binds with water creates its own kind of magic.

Painting botanical illustrations lets me celebrate the elegance, the ingenuity and the playfulness of Nature. Each piece is created intuitively, layering soft washes and then breaking their stillness with playful spills and spatters, wispy ink lines, and delicate textures. I often leave parts of the paper exposed, letting the white surface breathe and become part of the painting itself. My work blends unfinished sketches with detailed moments, allowing the viewer’s imagination to complete the story. I am fascinated by the space between what is seen and what is felt - and my art exists not to present facts but to evoke feelings.

Through my art I hope to blur the line between this world and another, to bring back the childlike wonder with which we once gazed upon the world. I wish to convey the sort of gentle magic, as if you stepped into a snow globe or stumbled upon a hidden lair of fairies.

Gallery

Products I use

  • I currently use daVinci brushes: #0, #2 and #-2 french quill from the Casaneo line, #8 round kolinsky brush from Meastro line and #6 reservoir brush from Casaneo line.

    My supporting brushes are Escoda: #6 round brush and 1/4'“ dagger brush from Perla line, and #12 round brush from Ultimo series.

  • I currently paint with a mixed brand palette that I created after much deliberation, from highest quality single pigmented colours of my choosing. It consists of paints from Sennelier, Rembrandt, Winsor & Newton and MaimeriBlu.

    I am also testing the supergranulating colours from the Schmincke palette and the new Revival Colour Palette from Winsor & Newton.

  • I use a variety of 100% cotton papers, 300gsm, including Arches, Hahnemühle and Baohong. My preference is to cold pressed paper but I started introducing hot pressed paper too, especially for the works that will later be offered as prints.