Sara Pedigo

Sara Pedigo grew up in the Southern United States and is a representational painter and a professor at Flagler College. She is based in St. Augustine, Florida. Her areas of interest include the figure, light, and voyeuristic scenes; paintings of windows or views into a home. Her paintings are of mundane, everyday environments; backyards, neighborhoods, scenes of daily life.
Life and Career
Sara Pedigo was born October 23, 1981, in California. Her family did not remain there long. By the age of 2 they had moved to rural South Carolina where she lived until her family moved again. This time staying in Gainesville, Florida. Pedigo went to Flagler College for undergraduate graduating in 2003 with a BA in Fine Arts and minors in Art History and Stained Glass. She later attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2007 to receive her MFA in painting. Her solo exhibitions include The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach in Jacksonville, Florida; Wynn Bone Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland; and Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina. Group exhibitions include the Cue Foundation, First Street Gallery, and Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City, Manifest Gallery in Cincinnat<nowiki/>i, Ohio, and the Naples Art Museum in Naples, Florida. Her work; Winter to Spring, was a part of the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC in 2006. She is currently a professor at Flagler College in Saint Augustine where she teaches drawing, 2D materials and concepts, figure drawing and painting as well as BA and BFA classes.
Sara’s paintings deal with light and it’s power to transform spaces. In the same way that light is fleeting and passes quickly so to does life. Her works, an attempt at preserving herself in existing here and now.
Work
Pedigo has stated that she has a "budding meditation practice", and that her work is a way to be more conscious of her own existence." She also has an interest painting over previous paintings.
Her inspiration predominantly comes from following other artists on various social medias, growing up she was not really inspired by any artists, which has carried forth into her practice today<ref name=":1" />.

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