Hi! I'm Sarah Jene` Appanaitis. I'm a fine artist, digital artist, and writer. Soon after High School, real life hit me. Thank you for visiting my page :)
I'm a born artist who started out with a pencil and paper drawing whatever inspired me or the images my mind would imagine. In the 5th grade, I attempted my first realistic sketch portrait of a person's face and I actually succeeded. During my middle school years, I attempted my first serious painting of my previous pet dog, Shannon. I entered the painting into a contest held at a Nashville festiv
al and won first place in its category as well as gained my first commission opportunity. During High school, I experienced a streak of creativity and created more paintings, more drawings, explored pottery, and discovered a hidden talent and love for writing. My mother, who was a single parent most of my life, was let go from her position in the social work field and we had to survive. My artwork was put away because the world told me I couldn't make a living as an artist. The priority became whatever was useful and practical. I could no longer get lost in my artwork because I had to be a 'responsible adult'. For years, I wandered through various jobs from restaurant work, to licensed stylist, to warehouse work, and many other odd end jobs in between. Throughout my whole working life, I always had an inner drive to become an entrepreneur. I could not shake this no matter how 'stuck' in a job I was. In 2018, God shook me and turned my whole world upside down... or rather... right side up. God convicted me of the life that I was living and that it was not the life I should be living. I clung to the little world I knew but God continued to work in my heart and reveal to me His glory and truth. I learned to truly live my life for Him and to walk in His ways. Throughout the years, I had buried my art and abandoned it. I had been figuratively 'placed in a cage' and conditioned to fill spots in society that was never who I was meant to be. God has gradually led me back to my identity as an artist. Recently, God has been bringing all of the right sources, people, and inner healing into my life that is needed for me to begin again. After several promptings from God, I finally created this page. Going forward, I aim to glorify Him in my paintings and to enlighten and impact those who follow me or buy my work.
