AUGUST ABUNDANCE with artist Sara Allen in our back gallery

We would like to welcome artist Sarah Allen to our back gallery for the month of August.

Sara Allen is an Alaska artist and founder of Laughing Lupin Studios. After more than two
decades working in Alaska’s tourism industry, she now creates art full-time from her
home studio in Anchorage with her dog Bobber & her husband Nick cheering her on.
Inspired by Alaska’s wildflowers, changing seasons, and the beauty hidden within everyday
chaos. Sara creates vibrant acrylic and mixed-media paintings filled with bold color, layered
textures and expressive mark-making. While flowers often appear throughout her work,
her paintings are less about specific plants and more about capturing the feeling of joy,
wonder, resilience, and connection to place.
August is Alaska at its fullest. The last of the salmon runs, berries fat and ready for
plucking, gardens overflowing and the fireweed turning to fluff. Woven into that abundance is the quiet
knowledge that the season is already beginning to turn. The first hints of autumn appear, reminding us how
fleeting these bright days truly are.
August Abundance celebrates this uniquely Alaskan moment, when nature is overflowing, the light still
lingers late into the evening, and we are invited to savor the richness of the season before it slips gently
toward fall.
You can find Sara’s art year-round at Tiny Gallery downtown Anchorage and in Girdwood, at the Girdwood
Center for Visual Arts as well as local fairs, markets and on her website.

AUGUST ABUNDANCE will run through Friday August 28th.