Art shaped by adventure. Artist shaped by change.
Acrylic landscape artist and poetic nature writer.
Sab Curtis is a Kootenay-based creative whose work is deeply rooted in both place and perspective. Through painting, she translates the environments she wanders through into immersive compositions. Through writing, she interprets meaningful messages conveyed through the natural elements she paints. Her practice is not only inspired by the natural world, but shaped by it—each expression becoming a record of exploration and evolution.
Representation
Sab’s artwork is hosted by a select group of galleries. These partnerships make it possible to experience her paintings in person.
accomplishments
Sab’s creative efforts have been acknowledged in a variety of ways. This recognition continues to motivate her creative practice.
Every piece begins with movement through Mother Nature —
observing, absorbing, and interpreting moments.
art.
Creativity is how I stay connected.
Adventure molds me and articulating landscapes replicates that fond sense of wild exploration and connection. My creative practice is a way to feel nurtured by nature’s magnificence—painting realistically and writing poetically deepens my relationship with the world around me and within me.
Each creation becomes a journal to translate the lessons I learn through my journeys. I use acrylics to weave layers that breathe life into recreated memories. I use metaphors to discover deeper meaning from where I wander. I am attracted to composition that engages the eye as well as the mind, and I become absorbed into each environment, enabling contemplation of what my creative practice is offering me and those who embrace my work.
adventure.
Exploration is where everything begins.
My affinity and respect for the natural world stems from a life of exploring mountainous terrain around the world, including my own backyard in the Kootenay region of British Columbia where I have found inspiration for over 20 years. The combination of moving through an environment while absorbing it with a creative lens is when I feel most alive, and both photography and plein air painting support my studio practice.
Writing exercises my lifelong love of wordplay, but painting became my unexpected silver lining while navigating more recent realities of traumatic brain injury. In 2020, I put brush to canvas for the first time in my life and I have not stopped since. Previously an engineer, neuroplasticity helped my brain overcome damage and emerge artistically, and my creative process has helped me comprehend the unplanned pivot in my life.
“ART IS AN adventure FOR ME AND ADVENTURE inspires MY ART.”
art. adventure.
Mother Nature is my greatest muse.
I continually motivate my practice through extensive adventures by foot, bike or skis, acquiring inspiration for my next body of work.
Join me on an #artventure!