About

My work is about place, drawing on relationships with urban and rural wild places, shaped by years spent exploring wild places and abandoned urban landscapes - and by a passion for earth sciences.

Much of the work investigates change and the act of becoming.  I am fascinated with physical transformation in natural phenomena, whether on a geologic time scale or in a moment's reflection.  A road cut exposing ancient seabeds, the evolution of Earth's life forms from elemental minerals to fungi, the forces of wind and snow on a high mountain conifer - all feed my imagination and sense of history.  The work also investigates the transformative role we play in shaping our environment.  

Following a move to northern New Mexico, the work is transforming in response to the high desert: the plants, soil and stone of the Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains, the shifting Rio Grande Rift, ever changing skies, fierce light and seasonal palette.  And the undulating surface of adobe, stone walls and acequia reflect the human imprint on the land, and how these elements influence our experience of this place. 

My studio practice is intuitive and driven by exploration, chance, and the physical characteristics of pigments, water, mediums, paper and canvas.  My process entails building a history of surfaces, forces and materials over time, working between what I feel and what I know.

Saundra has a full time studio practice in Santa Fe New Mexico. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she considers how the natural and human worlds intersect. Saundra's work is shown and sold nationally.

Oracle Corporation, Redwood City California

Charles Schwab Corporation, San Francisco California

Chazen Museum of Art, Madison Wisconsin

2010 Winner, NRDC Environmental Art Prize  

2024, 2007, 2008  Folly Magazine  

2008 Studio Visit Magazine

Accepted to the National Association of Women Artists, New York  

San Francisco Art Institute, and University of California, Berkeley, Studio Classes  

M.S. Non-Profit Art Management, Drexel University, Philadelphia  

B.S. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley