I’m writing spells on the back of my paintings these days.. ✨ this one reads:

I am an alchemist of energy,
A transformer of conflict,
A creator of new realities.
I do not simply react to the world.
I shape it, shift it, and transmute it
Into s

I’m releasing another set of wearable works from my Soul Ties series at the @redlinedenver holiday market tomorrow ✨Made from vintage neckties and stitched fabrics, each one is one of a kind. I only make a small batch each year and they sold ou

A little sneak peek of what I’m bringing to the @redlinedenver holiday market tomorrow 🎁 Works on paper, made with paint, fabric and magazines. $75 each, plus I’ll have a few other offerings. And don’t forget, a portion of sales to

Last week to see the COllage exhibition at the @arvadacenter - closing November 9th!

Thank you to @collinparson for inviting me to experiment with this sculptural piece and to @olive.j.20 for all your support. What now hangs in the atrium here began

“Collective Body” is a one day pop-up exhibit in collaboration with @liberationmovement2025 and @thebiennial on the 16th Street Mall this Sunday✨ Join us on October 26th at Writer’s Square for a day of art and embodied reflection.

Last call y’all: “Soul Sutures” will be up at McNichols until September 30, alongside nearly a dozen reclaimed textile works of mine in the Fiber Arts Today exhibit.

To “suture” is to stitch a wound closed. In this col

In July, I joined the Board of Directors for @projectpave - a Denver nonprofit that empowers youth to build healthy relationships and break cycles of violence.

As a survivor myself, this means so much. When I was in high school, I lived through rela

This work came from sitting with the ache of release and how letting go can be both devastating and necessary. I stitched it from my old clothing and clothing from people I’ve loved and lost. I’ve been thinking a lot about our collective

About

Sarah Darlene (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist, meditation teacher, and energy practitioner whose work explores embodiment as both a spiritual and material process. Working with expressive abstract painting and recycled textiles, she transforms garments and fabric remnants into fiber-based works that often function as contemporary altarpieces. These works emerge through processes of cutting, stitching, tying, and painting, where material transformation becomes a ritual gesture of integration and repair.

Rooted in contemplative practice, her studio process unfolds through meditation, movement, and energetic attention. Breath becomes brushstroke, stitch becomes repair, repetition becomes prayer. Many of her works begin with garments connected to lived experience, which are transformed through ritualized making into objects that hold moments of transition, closure, and renewal. Rather than representing transformation, the works function as witnesses to it.

Alongside her studio practice, Darlene facilitates Flow State, a contemplative painting practice she has taught for five years at the Denver Art Museum and in museums and community spaces throughout Colorado. Combining guided meditation, intuitive mark-making, and collective reflection, the practice explores creative expression as a tool for embodiment, nervous system regulation, and communal care.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Denver Art Museum, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, and Regis University. She was an Artist in Residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center from 2020–2022, where she began developing the connection between contemplative practice, ritual, and contemporary abstraction that continues to guide her work today.

Darlene lives and works in Denver, Colorado, and is currently developing Soft Currents, a digital slow-tech artwork exploring meditation, sound, and visual abstraction as a form of communal ritual.