Over the years, Sandra’s art career has carried her through several media, styles, and techniques. Many artists go through these phases of development before they find where their passion truly lies. Sandra has found this passion in the petroglyphs and pictographs of ancient Native Americans. These ancient people left the traces of their lives upon the earth’s architecture of rock. It is here, in the Southwestern Desert, that Sandra finds a continuing source of inspiration for her unique style of acrylic paintings.
Sandra’s ability to blend color, shape, and texture enables her to create the illusion of an actual cave wall or cliff face. Within this illusion of rock lies a composition of anthropomorphic symbols and shapes. The images portrayed in Sandra’s paintings are based on authentic petroglyphs and pictographs. Using her amazing talent for color and composition, Sandra paints these images in her own composition. This enables her to create freely a hypothetical and researched theme in each of her pieces.
The mirage like appearance of these sacred images and the spiritual mysticism of an ancient time, is what brings Sandra’s paintings to life. Sandra’s art appeals to many people who have commissioned her to create that perfect piece, for a certain room or foyer within their beautiful homes. Sandra’s work is in collections across the country and abroad, with pieces hanging in private collections as far away as Italy and Canada.

Method and Medium

Each original piece starts with a well-crafted irregular shaped wood panel. Using traditional construction methods, each hardboard panel is built to a thickness of one inch to an inch and five eights, depending on the project. The edges are filed, sanded, and shaped to Sandra’s specifications. Sandra’s wonderful paintings appear to have three dimensions, however each panel is constructed completely flat and smooth. These panels are made totally of wood which makes them very light, weighing not much more than a framed painting of equal size.
Sandra’s painting techniques create a depth of color not seen in many acrylic paintings today. Her unique method of painting, combined with superb panel construction enables Sandra to create virtually any size, shape, and color of painting. These sizes range from 17 by 24 inches to panels as large as 4 by 6 feet! Sandra has created spectacular diptychs, triptychs, and three dimensional free standing art. Each one of Sandra’s pieces is an original one of a kind work of art.