Sara Catena is a vastly talented and entrepreneurial artist who combines a practical study in Art & Design with a natural creative instinct to produce unique and appealing artworks of quality.
Sara’s unique and joyful artworks have a positive energy reflecting her belief that :“We are so heavily influenced by our visual surrounds, therefore the art we put on our walls should be something that is uplifting, joyous and adds value to our busy and demanding lives”.
Sara’s work shows influences of her study into the early European fauvist movement (so called for the artists’ wild use of color). Her artwork is also influenced by her extensive travels throughout Europe, Northern Africa , Asia and her life in New Zealand and Australia.
Sara’s inspirational mentors are world renown: Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Mirka Mora, Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Gabriele Munter, Ken Done, Wassily Kandinsky, Kaffe Fassett.
Sara’s much sought after Paintings / Commissioned Artworks & Murals grace a great many residences , corporate environments, and businesses in Australia, New Zealand, U.S.A., France, Germany, Italy, U.K., Portugal, Spain, Canada ,Hong Kong , Holland and Singapore.
Sara is a very prolific painter, having sold over 500 artworks since 2000, her paintings are vastly popular in gallery exhibitions and attract great interest and sales yearly. Sara is also renown for creating unique, commissioned designs, that are then produced under licensing agreements in children wear , fabrics and homewares, both in Australia and internationally.
Sara is the creator ( trademark pending ) of 2 innovative watercolor series :
1. “Watercolour Planet by Sara Catena™”
An ongoing series of : colorful, joyful, inspirational and positive watercolor vignettes.
2. “Crazy Maverix by Sara Catena™”
An ongoing series of : a unique, fun , deep thinking, unconventional, vegetarian , lovable and eccentric Crazy Cat named MAVERIX™.
Sara is also the creator of 2 distinct Design Series ™ (Trademark Pending):
“Thank God I’m Italian ™” & “Thank God I’m Irish™”
Sara creates her artworks from her home studio on the beautiful Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Australia, where she lives with her husband / manager / marketing director Nino Catena and their 2 children Isabella & Giulio.
10% Of all sales is donated to charitable organisations.
