Sarah Butsavage (b. 1990) is an American-born painter living and working in the South of France. Born outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sarah spent most of her childhood as a small idealist with a large imagination. It’s this creativity that eventually propelled her to receive her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2012.While working with acrylic and oil pastels in her Brooklyn studio, Sarah began to employ blocks of color that were destined to be drawn upon. It was here that the organic pull toward both drawing and painting came together onto canvas. Her works then and now remain true to their themes of womanhood, impermanence, paradox, and ambiguity. Her paintings attempt to answer the major questions of what it is “to be.” Often using an almost collage technique while painting, her art seeks to illustrate what she calls “the kaleidoscopic feeling of existence.”Sarah moved to Toulouse, France in 2018. She currently lives and works in Flavin, France in a water mill built in 1861.