Artist Statement

Sarah Boyle Carmack is a Twin Cities oboist and multifaceted artist who is in constant amazement of the sights and sounds in our natural surroundings. She paints the essence of Minnesota nature throughout the seasons in the form of vividly colored landscapes, birds, and botanical gouache paintings on watercolor paper. Sarah spends her free time hiking in the woods, and observing plants and wildlife as inspiration for her visual art. She adorns her finished paintings with metallic gold paint to create movement and iridescence.

Bio

Sarah Boyle Carmack grew up in Saint Paul and received her music degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and the University of Minnesota. She is the principal oboist of Minnesota Sinfonia, the English hornist of the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, and a freelancer and educator of oboe, reed making, and gouging machine repair and knife sharpening. Sarah is a maker of clothing and varied art forms, and began painting while out of work during the pandemic. She has been an exhibiting artist at the Northern Lights show at White Bear Center for the Arts in 2023 and 2024. Sarah is raising three kind and gifted sons and really wants to get a dog this summer.

Prints of Sarah’s art are available for purchase at thegoldenspyglass - Etsy