Vision
My paintings explore our relationship with the natural world - it’s cycles of growth and destruction, its fragility, but also its immense capacity for renewal. I am curious about the places where the intimate and the immense meet. A flower reflects an entire season, a landscape holds the memory of fire or water, and the movement of the sun and moon echoes the rhythm of our lives.
The language I create through color and symbolism is both sensory and emotional. Saturated hues and luminous glazes combined with expressive marks create worlds that are recognizable but not entirely fixed or concrete. Botanicals, animals, elements, and stars become ways of thinking about transformation, interconnectedness, impermanence, and our place within something much larger than ourselves.
That is the feeling I immerse myself in and seek to capture - the awe and uncertainty, the beauty and the flaw - all a part of a constant, cosmic cycle.
about
Sam Hauser is a contemporary Western artist specializing in expressionist oil paintings and batik fiber art. Sam's work combines the technical intricacy of hyperrealism with areas of freeform color abstraction. The push and pull between realism and pure color expression infuses Sam's work with a feeling of transcendence. In simplest terms, Sam creates spaces where reality and spirit meet.
Sam's work is dynamic, emotive, and an exciting commentary on human connection to the land, the sky, the flora, and the fauna. Both her oil paintings and batiks have received recognition and are collected across the globe.
Sam was trained for her BFA in Painting and Art History at the Maryland Institute College of Art, studying abstraction under Timothy App and realism under Karen Warshal and Mark Karnes. She now combines both art styles in her own form of expressionism.
Sam also studied at Studio Art Centers International Firenze, Italy where she studied Renaissance art and sculpture. This is also where Sam picked up the art of batik silk painting.
Sam currently resides in the stunning Colorado front range and can be found at art galleries and festivals throughout the Southwest. Sam offers private drawing, painting, and art business coaching out of her studio in Longmont, CO. Email sam@samhauserart.com for availability.