Voices of Experience - Sarah Yeoman

The View from the Mountain 14 x 21” Watercolor

“Thomas Moore captured my idea of what painting is: a search for spirit and an attempt to create a place for it to dwell.”

Sarah Yeoman’s watercolors are intimate poems revealing glimpses into her life. She respects the unpredictability of this difficult medium and yet guides it with great skill to create her light-infused paintings. Yeoman’s work has been recognized nationally and included in exhibitions of the American Watercolor Society, the International Watercolour Biennial and the International Watercolor Society among many others. Yeoman teaches classes in her Yorklyn, Delaware studio as well as in week-long workshops in Tuscany.

Growing up under difficult circumstances and with no other artists in her family, Yeoman used her imagination and creativity to thrive. She told us, in her own words, about when she knew she was an artist: