Description
‘Sinister Steeplechase’ by Frau Sakra
Artist: Frau Sakra
Title: ‘Sinister Steeplechase’
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30″ x 30″ x 1.5″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
About the Artwork:
“In this painting, a sinister audience enjoys a dangerous steeplechase scenario in which the horse is unlikely to clear the tall obstacle. The horse not only kicks the obstacle and endangers the rider (for whom a fiery grave is waiting on the ground), but also imperils tiny alarmed churchgoers who try to escape the church as soon as they hear and see the roof being kicked in.” – Frau Sakra
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Frau Sakra creates narrative art with romance and a slight chill, in oil paints or ink and watercolor. Her interest is in fine art and illustration, and much of her art bridges the two. Her home library of illustration, design, architecture, and literature inspires her and feeds her head. In her first life as a book and scientific journal editor in New York, she discovered that finding details about a subject should not be complicated or intimidating. In her editorial work, she did “short-order research”—fact-finding and picture research for book chapters and articles on tight publication deadlines. This gave her the ability to take an interest in whatever she likes and, after looking at multiple sources of information, create art out of it. While working her editorial job, she also took night classes at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design.
Some of her favorite artists are Peter Paul Rubens, Francisco de Zurbaran, Francisco Goya, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, N. C. Wyeth, Joe Coleman, Charles Bragg, Boris Vallejo, Anita Kunz, William Blake, Arthur Rackham, Aubrey Beardsley, Honore Daumier, and Harry Clarke—a mix of fine artists and illustrators.
Now living in the Los Angeles area, Frau Sakra has shown in numerous local galleries such as Hyaena Gallery, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Copro Gallery, the Dark Art Emporium, Hive Gallery, Cactus Gallery, Bearded Lady’s Mystic Museum, Creature Features, Cella Gallery, and 11:11 ACC, as well as Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, District VII in Detroit, Skull & Snake Tattoo Art Gallery in Berwick, Maine, and Forbidden Carnival Gallery in Chippenham, UK.