Sarah Horvat is a published freelance illustrator and award-winning artist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her illustrations have been featured in magazines, youth and adult books, and various media for the Northwestern Publishing House, WELS Synod publications, and arts organizations. She has exhibited her fine art in galleries, museums, colleges, and businesses. 

Horvat was awarded the 1993 WELS Art Guild Golden Palette Award, selected for the prestigious Lakefront Festival of Art college exhibit and chosen as the Fine Arts representative groundbreaker for the Wisconsin Lutheran College Center for the Arts (1995). She is recognized in various "Who's Who" publications (c. 1988-2002) for America's high schools, colleges and art museums, as well as for art and illustration in 2009. A member of SCBWI, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, she is actively working with writers and is currently creating an adult book cover. The April 2009 premiere show Milwaukee Artbeat, Milwaukee's Unique Arts Showcase Series, featured Sarah Horvat via an interview and select exhibition premiering her newest Eve, Awakening. Sarah was recently inducted into the N.A.W.A., National Association of Women Artists, New York.

In fall 2008, Horvat's "Eve Series" was selected for the New York exhibition, Paradise Lost, that celebrated poet John Milton's 400th birthday at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn. Her drawings "Eve Regrets," "Tree of Life," and "Tree of Knowledge" were among select works of 60 international artists. Paradise Lost has received worldwide recognition. Her "Tree of Life" giclée from The Eve Series is in the permanent collection of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.

Horvat embraces a Renaissance-man approach, a passion reflected among her diverse interests. Her artwork ranges from realistic to abstract, literal to allegorical, with lyrical lines, organic forms and visual textures. Horvat's diverse portfolio includes oil and watercolor paintings, stone sculpture, pastel and oil pastel, charcoal, mixed media, and photography, with a recent focus on drawing, watercolor and ink. Her Playing Card Series sketchbook is touring in The Sketchbook Project: Volume 3 themed Everyone We Know. Hosted by the Art House Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, sketchbooks tour concert style among U.S. galleries and museums from late February til mid-June, 2009.

 The Eve Series

The essence of the Biblical Eve has been a fervent focus for Sarah Horvat's current body of work. Her award-winning drawings are explorations in specific pencil leads, illustrating timeless reflections through a glass darkly, both cerebral allusions of Eve as ancestor and personal ruminations relating to Eve in contemporary life. 

The rippling cause and effect, expulsion and reproach, remorse and reparations, affect the reprisal roles of woman and humankind throughout time, as well as the spiritual and existing physical paradise lost.  She approaches piquant queries of ‘Who was Eve? Why did she do it? What was she thinking?,' then forges an intricate journey wrought with biblical foreshadowing, self-application, and metaphorical consummation:  hope. Her symbolic and seemingly fragile Eves are mired, yet, if one searches, an ethereal open window awaits. 

The first three works of Horvat's Eve Series were selected for the Paradise Lost exhibition, the world's largest celebration of John Milton's 400th birthday at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Her drawings "Eve Regrets," "Tree of Life," and "Tree of Knowledge" were among select works of 60 international artists. The exhibition received worldwide recognition.  Her giclée of "Tree of Life" from The Eve Series is in the permanent collection of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.  

A  limited series of artist proof giclées for the first three drawings of The Eve Series are available for purchase at the David Barnett Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sarah Horvat's "Eve Series"
was part of the New York exhibit

Paradise Lost
September 27 - November 2, 2008

The largest celebration of
John Milton's 400th birthday
at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
and recognized worldwide

View select Paradise Lost press, links