Sarah S. Harvey, BFA My Short Story

For 25 years I worked as a nursing head of a department in a Medical Center on the coast of Maine and made art when I could. I reached a point where I could not go on in the medical profession, and after some soul searching, enrolled in the Art program at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. It was there that I gained the confidence I needed to paint and make books. I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in May of 2001. My husband retired that same year and we decided to move to Pennsylvania where he had lived before and where we had many friends.

Maine is still in my heart and mind. I go there a couple of times a year to fill my eyes with the views of the sea and sky, but the weather is less harsh here, and there is a Spring.

I have found like minded artists here, in particular a group of people devoted to the environment and the preservation of farmland through painting landscapes.

Having spent 25 years in a career which involved the life and death of others, it is a delight to be engaged in the business of making art. And although I take what I am doing now equally seriously, creating these objects feels playful and exciting. These are emotions I never would have thought could arise so frequently in ones life and I am grateful to those who have intentionally and unintentionally helped me along this path.