Sara Sisun

Wilting Rose, Peach, Knife, Oil Painting

2023

Artist Comments
A still life features an arrangement of a rose, a knife, and a peach. Loose strokes and muted colors give textural variation to the composition. During the summer of 2023, artist Sara Sisun focused exclusively on painting flowers in one sitting. Working from life posed particular challenges as the flowers, light, and colors changed swiftly. Sara completed this study during a hot day, with the rose already beginning to wilt.

About the Artist
Artist Sara Sisun interprets timeless themes into contemporary compositions. Her works often explore subjects as memento mori, the female body, and historical motifs. “I believe strongly in the need for people to make and share images as a form of empathetic connection and continuity,” says Sara. Encouraged by her mother, who regularly took her to museums, Sara began her artistic journey at a young age. She fell in love with painting at age six after stepping into the Art Students League of Denver and feeling instantly at home. At twenty-one, she completed her MFA and furthered her studies in Art History, focusing on the Early Modern period. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Sara paints in a small studio in her bedroom, where she can hear a nearby creek outside her window. When not making art, Sara spends time reading, rock climbing, and teaching at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.

Words that describe this painting: flower, Manet, painterly, knife, peach, loose, rose, impressionism, still life, oil painting, brown

Wilting Rose, Peach, Knife
Sara Sisun
Oil painting on stretched linen
Natural wood edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2023
12 in. h x 9 in. w x 1 in. d
0 lbs. 8 oz.