The Fiber Painter

Sarah Lopez is a gifted fiber artist who learned how to make her own art yarn in 2020. She is known as the Fiber Painter because she hand-dyes and hand-spins wool into yarn then glues individual pieces of her handmade fiber onto canvas to create whimsical, textured paintings. Through fiber and touch, Lopez connects with the ancestral practices of repair, holding space for pain, while imagining something better for the future.

SARAH

LOPEZ

Smiling woman wearing glasses and colorful blue-green wool roving while seated behind a spinning wheel

Sarah Lopez • The Fiber Painter

As a modern day color alchemist, Sarah dyes and spins her own art yarn for her contemporary canvas creations. Inspired by the wisdom of her grandmothers, she fuses stories of resilience and love into every piece.Through her hands, yarn becomes a medium for profound emotional expression, inviting viewers into a world of whimsical wonder.

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Colorful hand-spun yarn wound on a wooden bobbin with a fluffy pastel carded art batt underneath

Before: Handmade art yarn in various forms: a carded batt (fluffy), hand-spun fiber on a bobbin, and a finished skein of art yarn!

Close-up of colorful handmade textile swatches resembling a human form made from thick, textured art yarn in yellow, black, pink, blue, green, and multicolored patterns

After: Handmade yarn turned into a fiber painting

“There’s a Universe Inside of You (2024)

Sarah’s evocative work revolutionizes the ancient art of textile creation. From sheep’s wool, to roving, to batt, to skein, to canvas, her fiber art reveals the vast beauty and possibility of natural fibers like wool. Her work celebrates the power of transformation and explores themes of nature, identity, and healing. Sarah is a visionary creator who is on a mission to infuse the world with wonder, one textured fiber painting at a time.

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