Sarah Lacy

Founded in contemporary realism, my intimate portraits and nudes explore the silent stories written on our skin and our bones, revealing our grace and humanity through oil paint and pencil.

Sarah Marie Lacy is a figure and portrait painter born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. She has exhibited across Canada & Europe, most recently with a solo show, Un{fashion}able, at the Shenkman Arts Centre in Ottawa and was a part of the Go Wild! exhibit at Gormley’s Fine Art in Ireland. She received a Certificate of Excellence in the Portrait Society of America’s 2017 International Competition, placed first in The Artist Magazine’s 2017 Annual Competition in the figure/portrait category and was a finalist in the 2015 Kingston Prize for Portraiture and her work is included in the AOG Gallery collection. She attended Studio Escalier in France from 2011-2013. She is currently based in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa.