Sarah Icon Painting

Solberg’s series of “Everyday Icons” are paintings of people or animals she wishes to venerate on a personal level. No less an Icon for their familiarity, her mixed media works celebrate the sacred in all of us. The painting “Sarah Icon” is a portrait of her friend Sarah B. Kamsin, a published author, (Vita, Babel, Cauliflower: 39 Poems about Metropolis and Earth), a poet, model, and human rights advocate. Beyond her surface beauty is a grace and depth that defies her age. In general, Solberg’s Icon portraits straddle the zone between reality and otherworldly. Focusing on a single character she captures fleeting moments of triumph, transition, struggle and enlightenment. Her signature technique produces a highly textured masterful portrait with surprising depth and luminescence.