ARTIST. CREATOR. HUMAN.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Each and every human soul has a deep yearning for something this world cannot offer. I believe what they seek is a relationship with the being who created them. My ultimate desire is to show people God’s unconditional love through what I create. Therefore, my artwork focuses on God and the human soul, working to convey the relationship between them in a visually beautiful way. My relationship with Jesus is the most meaningful and significant aspect of my life, so I want my paintings to bring others to see that passion and desire it too. I want them to know that Jesus really is the way, the truth, and the life.

Just as the Creator creates, so do I, the created. It is a connection I get to share with my God, and it brings me joy. Because God has created a world full of so many colors, I like to use this to my advantage. I utilize color in a very specific way when I create something from my soul. Color is vitally important to my artwork because in my mind, color is emotion. Color is life. Color illuminates the condition of the soul. A world without color is like a life without God.

Currently, I am working to improve the emotiveness of my work. I want to become more skilled at painting faces with deep rooted emotion in them, as well as expressive body language. I push to create paintings whose composition, lighting, and color immediately touch something in the soul with one glance, drawing the viewer in to look at it closer and be even more stirred by what they discover there. This often means exploring who God is to me. My king, my comforter, my friend, my identity, my home, and truly, my everything.

ARTIST BIO

Sarrah Weaver was born in 2000 in Delta, Colorado, and raised there for most of her childhood with four younger siblings. From a very young age, she showed an interest in creativity, drawing with crayons and colored pencils and building little cardboard houses. Weaver always had stories and images circulating around in her head, leading her to both write and draw what her imagination conjured. She grew up in church and became a believer at the age of 5, but it wasn’t until she was about 17 when she realized she needed to read the Bible for herself and determine if she really believed what she’d been taught. This is when her relationship with Jesus began to deepen, and her artwork began to change. Slowly, the art ideas she imagined began increasingly becoming more and more related to her walk with Christ and Christian concepts. Now, her desire is to use the gift of creativity God has given her to depict God’s love, whether it be through her visual art or her literary art.

Weaver took many art classes throughout middle school and highschool, and then after a two year gap in which she took a job as a graphic designer for a local newspaper, she decided to attend CMU to earn a BFA in Studio Art with a focus on painting. In 2023, Weaver was awarded first place for her painting BLUE in the annual CMU Student Show at The Art Center in Grand Junction. In 2024, Weaver published her first book, In Her Soul. She intends to graduate from CMU in the fall of 2025. Weaver’s current work is primarily surrealistic or symbolic in nature, conveying and exposing the human soul and its relationship with God, based on her own experiences, and of course based on Biblical truths. She strives to continue growing both in her relationship with God and in her visual and literary skill so that both may be used for His glory.