Sarah Marie Lacy, SCA's Linkedin Analytics

I’ve always been drawn to portraiture and people’s faces. I am endlessly fascinated by the human body in all of its intricacy, subtlety and grace. Growing up, it was the portraits in art history books that I first fell in love with - people’s stories and lives looking out at me centuries later. Bored in class in elementary school, I made a whole series of portraits of the backs of my fellow students’ heads. Two decades later, now I have the honour of getting to paint the front of people’s heads as well, much to my relief. I currently live in Ottawa, Canada with my elderly three-legged Maine Coon rescue cat and a small legion of benignly neglected houseplants. In my spare time, I knit with an absentminded disregard for patterns & instructions and practice ballet. I trained at Studio Escalier in France, spending over 2000 hours honing my craft under master artists. My art has been featured in American Art Collector and Fine Art Connoisseur, and awarded a Certificate of Honour at the Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition. I have demonstrated 18th century portrait drawing techniques at the National Gallery of Canada on several occasions and ran a popular traditional painting & drawing school for 5 years. My work has been exhibited in Canada, the US and Ireland and I am currently working towards another solo exhibition (2023).