Sara Roberts (b. 1982, Sydney, Australia) is a contemporary painter whose work explores the interplay between the natural world and the human experience. Raised across Mexico, France, Sweden, Poland, and Australia, her diverse cultural background informs the atmospheric, dreamlike quality of her paintings. She studied Visual Art (Honours) at the University of Sydney and earned an MFA in Painting under the supervision of the contemporary artist Lindy Lee.
Roberts’ practice is rooted in oil painting, using a meticulous layering technique of adding and subtracting while maintaining a contemporary sensibility. Her compositions balance realism with abstraction, often featuring solitary figures immersed in vast, luminous landscapes that evoke a sense of wonder, nostalgia, and introspection. Her work is both expansive and intimate—capturing the ephemeral, fleeting moments where time seems to stand still.
Her paintings have been exhibited in Australia, Melbourne and Los Angeles and are held in private collections worldwide, including in Dubai, Hong Kong, France, the UK, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, and Denmark. In 2024, she won Bluethumb Art Gallery’s Landscape Art Prize, and in 2015, she was recognized by Rebecca Wilson chief curator of Saatchi Art as ‘One to Watch’ and an ‘Artist to Invest In.’
Currently based in Shoalhaven Heads, NSW, Roberts draws inspiration from the coastal landscapes around her, using water, reflections, and shifting light as metaphors for memory, perception, and the unseen connections between people and nature. Her paintings invite viewers to step into a world where reality and dreams merge—an invitation to slow down, observe, and feel deeply the present moment.
