About
Sarah MH is a painter, textile artist, natural dyer and printmaker based in Oakland, California, originally from Western MA.
Much of her practice centers on the act of making materials themselves—foraging and growing natural pigments and inks, blending them with synthetic and mineral elements. This process of gathering and transforming raw matter grounds her work in a direct relationship with the physical world, even as the imagery reaches toward something more elusive. The labor of making these materials—the foraging, the slow transformation of plants into pigment—becomes a form of attention itself, a way of dwelling in that threshold between the tangible and intangible.
Her paintings explore rich inner worlds alongside the quiet noticing of small moments—garden light filtering through leaves, the geometry of an embrace, spirals that appear and reappear around us. Water, shadows, shells, and fossils surface as recurring forms, objects and phenomena that exist at thresholds, holding both presence and absence. Seeds appear as symbols of hope and potential, and the sensation of floating—of being suspended between states—runs throughout.
She also works with textile installations as an extension of paintings: sheer tapestries pieced together from dyed and painted fabric scraps, suspended to create portal-like environments. These works function as literal thresholds that viewers can move around and through. Light filters through transparent layers, botanical impressions emerge and fade across the patch-worked surface, and shadows become part of the composition. The viewer encounters them not as pictures to observe but as spaces to inhabit, doorways between the world we inhabit and the imagined worlds we carry within.
Her work has been shown in juried group shows in the Bay Area at Soft Times Gallery, Wave Collective, The Midway, 2727 California, Minimart, Two Cats Gallery and the Drawing Room.
Sarah MH is a painter, textile artist, natural dyer and printmaker based in Oakland, California, originally from Western MA.
Much of her practice centers on the act of making materials themselves—foraging and growing natural pigments and inks, blending them with synthetic and mineral elements. This process of gathering and transforming raw matter grounds her work in a direct relationship with the physical world, even as the imagery reaches toward something more elusive. The labor of making these materials—the foraging, the slow transformation of plants into pigment—becomes a form of attention itself, a way of dwelling in that threshold between the tangible and intangible.
Her paintings explore rich inner worlds alongside the quiet noticing of small moments—garden light filtering through leaves, the geometry of an embrace, spirals that appear and reappear around us. Water, shadows, shells, and fossils surface as recurring forms, objects and phenomena that exist at thresholds, holding both presence and absence. Seeds appear as symbols of hope and potential, and the sensation of floating—of being suspended between states—runs throughout.
She also works with textile installations as an extension of paintings: sheer tapestries pieced together from dyed and painted fabric scraps, suspended to create portal-like environments. These works function as literal thresholds that viewers can move around and through. Light filters through transparent layers, botanical impressions emerge and fade across the patch-worked surface, and shadows become part of the composition. The viewer encounters them not as pictures to observe but as spaces to inhabit, doorways between the world we inhabit and the imagined worlds we carry within.
Her work has been shown in juried group shows in the Bay Area at Soft Times Gallery, Wave Collective, The Midway, 2727 California, Minimart, Two Cats Gallery and the Drawing Room.