| Sara Nadeau resides in Ottawa,
Ontario, where she paints and also works in interior design. She began a career as a painter after working in advertising and television production both in Toronto and New York. While living in NY, Sara studied fine arts with Ken Nishi at the Rockland Center for the Arts. A later move took her to California. There, she continued her study of art at the Monterey Museum of Art, the Carmel Art Institute, and West Valley College in Saratoga, and pursued an interest in interior design. By the mid l980s, the interior design field had begun to focus on fresco painting, which Sara studied at the Gale Lawrence School in San Francisco. It was at this point that she discovered a passion for trompe l’oeil painting and proceeded to incorporate it for a number of years in her work in interior design. She was commissioned to create trompe l’oeil painting in California, Ontario, Florida, Nova Scotia and British Columbia. Over the years, her work has been featured in California Lifestyle magazine, The Globe & Mail, Canadian House & Home, Country Life, and Lifestyle Nova Scotia. Two of her trompe l’oeil panels hang in the Hospital for Sick Kids and the Ronald MacDonald House in Toronto. More recently, she has exhibited her paintings in Nova Scotia, at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Argyle Gallery in Halifax, the Fox Harbour Gallery and the Acadia University Art Gallery. Today, much of Sara’s work is held in private and corporate collections. Paintings can be viewed, by appointment, at her studio in Ottawa. eMail: SaraANadeau@gmail.com Telephone: 613-695-2257 Website: www.SaraNadeaustudio.com |
 Photo by architectural photographer John Bent |