SARAH ALEXANDER | SUTTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Sarah Alexander’s work is highly detailed, layered, and fluid. She works with multiple materials and mediums, with a focus on drawing and painting, and also known for her sculptures. Alexander creates through a stream of consciousness, and the resulting depictions appear gravity-defying.

Sarah Alexander is a contemporary mixed media artist with an emphasis on watercolor and drawing using unconventional surfaces and techniques. Recently she has been working with steel. She is the Director of Visual Arts at Hopkinton Center for the Arts in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where she manages the gallery and teaches all ages from children to adults, she works on her artwork in her Hopedale studio, and at her family's steel shop Norfolk Iron Works Inc. She is a Core Artist Member at Fountain Street Gallery in Boston. Her work is in private collections and has been shown extensively throughout New England, and abroad. Her work has been published by North Light Books in Incite the Best of Mixed Media Incite 1, 2, and 3.

An avid observer of her environment, she engages in daily intuitive drawing sessions in order to access her subconscious. These daily sessions result in obsessive studies with subtle differences within the imagery. Alexander’s final images are imbued with empathy, naturalist imagery, and spiraling abstractions.

Regarding my recent dive into working with steel: “Cataloging my life through daily drawing sessions using imagery from my own personal history, I work obsessively to process my way through hectic days.

Welding and cold hammering work out of steel has been cathartic for me.

I wanted to see my drawings take form and become three dimensional, as a way to give them more power, and perhaps therefore to give myself more power. The decision to use steel was a natural one since my huband and I have owned and operated a steel fabrication business for nearly 4 decades.” - Sarah Alexander

Meaning of this piece:

The title of the artwork is a reference to a poem by A.A. Milne, a poem read to the artist by her mother, who is now battling dementia. The sculpture also reflects Alexander's personal journey, symbolizing her recovery from a fall and the freedom she feels in embracing the unknown.

Where Am I Going, I Don't Quite Know, approximately 5'2" tall with stand, hand-hammered, welded, available with or without stand

$8000 w/o stand, 9000 w/ stand

Sarah Alexander’s artwork is a testament to resilience, transformation, and the healing power of creating work as a contribution to social and cultural life, especially for this in her community. An exemplary contemporary mixed media artist, Alexander’s practice moves fluidly between drawing, painting, and metal sculpture—each layer rich with meaning and emotional resonance. Her work with steel has brought dynamic and large-scale dimension to her stream-of-consciousness imagery, translating her intricate, gravity-defying drawings into sculptural form.

In confronting the challenges of caring for aging parents and her mother’s struggle with dementia and caring for family, Alexander channels art as therapy—a daily ritual of intuitive drawing and making that helps her process memory, time, and loss. The resulting works are both deeply personal and universally human, embodying empathy, strength, and a quiet defiance against fragility.

In addition to her studio practice, Sarah Alexander contributes to public art experiences, like Art on the Trails through her large-scale metal sculptures that merge epic industrial strength with organic form. Installed on walking trails and in natural settings, these works invite viewers to pause, reflect, and connect with the surrounding environment in new ways. Her sculptures interact with light, weather, and landscape, transforming with time and season—reminding visitors of the enduring dialogue between human creativity and the natural world.

In Delirium, Sarah’s work reflects not only mastery of material and what is possible on it’s surface, but also the profound beauty of endurance and transformation, that we can all gain from by viewing her work. A sculpture by Sarah Alexander on your property would not only transform your space, but positioned where others could see, they are beacons of interest and affirmations of cultural significance.

Visit her website to learn more and see how her drawings and paintings relate to her metal work.