Sarah Finnigan holds the original for Thran Portal, done for MTG, in her home studio.

Sarah Finnigan is a Texas-based artist who found her way to art in a circuitous manner. Feverishly pursuing music from a young age, she graduated with a degree in tuba performance but found herself distracted from practice when she fell in love with art. Her inspiration is built on a youth spent getting lost in adventure games, exploring in the woods, and being captivated by astronomy and the night sky.

Sarah's work is achieved through a glazing technique to create luminous acrylic paintings. Her work has been published in Magic: The Gathering, Infected By Art, ImagineFX and others, and has exhibited by Society of Illustrators West, Haven Gallery, Every Day Original, the A.R. Mitchell Museum, and more.

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“Places have long held particular importance to me. The shaping forces on a landscape and the evidence people leave behind in abandoned places intrigue us with their stories. We are so affected by the spaces we inhabit. I paint landscapes that carry those fingerprints of what our environments mean to us, in luminous transparent layers of acrylics on wood. I seek to draw the viewer in as a solitary explorer.

Wide horizons, towering clouds, and vast starry skies inspire reverence, awe, and wonder, as well as a sense of smallness and insignificance that fills me with great appreciation for and intimidation of this astonishing world. I strive to reflect that through my paintings.”

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