Echoes of the West Coast – Spatial Inception
Sarb Glaze is a Canadian abstract expressionist artist and portrait photographer from Vancouver, B.C. The natural beauty of the West Coast remains a grounding source of inspiration in her life and art.
Her creative career began in 2009 as a portrait photographer, where she developed a sensitivity to gesture, authenticity, and energy, particularly through her work with children. After becoming a mother, she turned to painting with acrylics in 2020 as another way to express emotion and reconnect with a sense of freedom and play. What started as exploration quickly evolved into a passionate practice that bridges her love of colour, movement, and nature. By 2024, she began exploring painting more intuitively. Her paintings reflect both the calm and energy of the natural world while drawing on the honesty and spontaneity she admires in children, which is the same sense of wonder she strives to keep alive in her art. In 2025, Sarb began earning recognition for her work.
Sarb’s painting The Trails was selected by Arts to Hearts Project as one of the Top 100 Emerging Artworks of 2025, and was published in their book. Her work has been featured in Artist Close Up Magazine, Visual Art Journal, and in the October 2025 inaugural issue of Tosee Art Magazine. She has exhibited in galleries across British Columbia, Canada, including with the Federation Gallery of the Federation of Canadian Artists. She’s exhibited in online galleries internationally, including with Gallerium’s Cancer – Never Give Up 2025 exhibition. Her work has appeared as a Curator’s Pick on Artsy.net. Sarb is currently exhibiting with the Seymour Art Gallery in Vancouver, B.C. and is scheduled to exhibit with Vancouver’s VS Creative Lab’s SEEN exhibition for women in arts. Sarb is delighted to contribute her work to fundraising efforts that support the arts and charitable causes, including with the North Van Arts Anonymous Art Show and Vancouver’s Outsider and Others.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Sarb Glaze’s paintings are guided by emotional intuition and sensory memory. Through abstraction, she explores the space between movement and stillness, chaos and calm. Her inspiration comes from the honesty of youth and the quiet rhythms of nature—two sources of spontaneity andgroundingthat shapeher creativeprocess.
Working mainly in acrylic, she builds layered surfaces that invite colour, gesture, and texture to interact. Her abstract forms often carry an organic quality that echoes natural elements, suggesting growth, transformation, and renewal. Both vibrant and muted palettes are used to create tension and balance, encouragingthe viewer to linger and look more closely.
What draws her to this work is its ability to express not how nature looks, but how it feels—shifting, layered, and alive with memory, much like the emotions stirred by one’s childhood. Her paintings invite a quiet pause, offering moments of reflection, wonder, and connection.
