Nobody else paints the Rockies like Sarah Winkler. Her acrylic and mixed-media abstract landscapes with fragmented color fields and crushed minerals are as contemporary as they come.
Unlike most landscape painters, Winkler portrays what’s above and the surface of the earth. The geology of the mountains fascinates her. “I kind of force the horizon line to depict the hidden geology,” she explains. She incorporates such materials as marble dust, iron oxide, crushed obsidian, powdered turquoise, gold mica flake, pink granite, and pearlescent pigments. There are