ABOUT ALAYNE
STATEMENT
Alayne Sahar is a Romantic Realist Watercolor painter whose aesthetic depicts the female figure in the natural world where the mood is romantic and the women are portrayed as ardent poetic beings who evoke the soulful side of femininity.
She focuses on three primary ideas about women; the concept of femininity as seen through the lens of the five elements (Fire, Water, Earth, Air and Aether), Sacred Geometry and the influence of the divine in our day to day lives; sometimes with a touch of irreverence. Her paintings relate more to a state of mind, mood and feeling than to a tangible object. It is personal biography meets movement, emotion, passion and color. The subjects muse and fuse the classical and the modern, the flat and the defined, the representational and abstract.
BIOGRAPHY
Alayne Sahar graduated with a Certificate in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1997 and continues her training working with artists James Toogood, Paul McCormack and Roberto Osti. She is influenced by the paintings of Violet Oakley, John Waterhouse, Alphonse Mucha, William Bouguereau and thePreRaphaelites.Alayne is a Signature/Elected member of various state/regional watercolor organizations and art clubs and has won numerous awards for her paintings. She was the Pennsylvania State Ambassador for the Portrait Society of America from 2021-2022.
Her work has been shown at the Salmagundi Club, The National Arts Club, The Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Fe Gallery and other galleries in the United States and abroad. She was a finalist in the International WatercolorMasters Exhibition at Lilleshall Hall, England in 2022. Her painting titled “Gratitude” was curated into the Premier International Biennial Portrait Competition in 2019 at WMOCA and she has exhibited alongside painters such as Grant Gilsdorf, Patricia Schappler, Megan Elizabeth Read and Terry Strickland.
Her paintings hang in private collections and are in a digital time capsule on the Moon as part of the Lunar Codex in partnership with NASA’s Nova and Polaris programs. She has been published in American Art Collector Magazine and has curated shows published through Hashtag Art Magazine(33PA).
Alayne is currently represented by D Anthony Gallery in Wausau, Wisconsin. Click on this link to view her work and purchase.
Alternatively, a number of her paintings are available for purchase through 33 Contemporary Gallery via Artsy using the 33 icon on this page or this link.