Artwork copyright Sarah Thompson. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Artwork copyright Sarah Thompson. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

One Red Bloom, 1988

Sarah Thompson
(American, born 1954)

Location: Granite Falls School District, Granite Falls

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Artist Sarah Thompson created the colorful still life painting One Red Bloom to celebrate the importance of life and culture. She notes, “The red flower symbolizes human life and the blood we all share. This flower reaches high through a clear blue space symbolizing the air and water we all need. Somehow this flower grows above and beyond a vase which seems to have been built from left-over tire tread.”

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Granite Falls School District.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Artist Sarah Thompson creates still life, figurative, and landscape paintings. Born in Louisiana, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1981, and studied under artist Jacob Lawrence. She has served as an art instructor at the University of Washington and Bellevue Community College, among other institutions.