Sara Pace


Sara Pace is an up-and-coming artist, educator and a musician who plays the piano and clarinet.

Through art she seeks to create works that speak out to the viewer, bringing about thoughts of a natural environment.

Her oeuvre so far revolves around the importance of natural spaces upon our lives and the need to show that we form part of nature. With every finished work, she tries to show the dreamlike spaces which surround us but are generally forgotten in the humdrum of everyday life.

Pace is mainly influenced by literature, pantheism and the world around us which bring about very different works in themselves.

Part of Sara’s preparation for a new piece is to read and understand as much as possible about the selected theme. Summoning memories, light and mood within her creative effort are pivotal in the process. Sara hopes to bring the vibrancy of the Mediterranean culture and her musical background to the fore through the bright choice of colours and the playfulness in her paintings.

Artist Sara Pace graduated in both History of Art and Digital Fine Art from the University of Malta. She has furthered her studies at Clarion University of Pennsylvania as well as at the Burren College of Art, Ireland. Sara has curated and participated in exhibitions both locally and abroad.


“Elemental Formation”

by Sara Pace

Wine buffs call it the art of the swirl, as they woosh the wine around before tasting; and Sara Pace drew inspiration for her work from the ritual, the wine’s tempestuous movement in the glass and the reflections of light bouncing off it. 

True to character and style, Pace depicts interpretations of nature’s elements.

Impromptu sketches of the elements and of forces needed for the grapevine to survive and grow its fruit for us so that we can enjoy wine, helped cristallise the piece’s final design. As Sara puts it: “The gratifying sense of lightness of being that’s felt after tasting an excellent wine is what led to the finalisation of my idea for the barrel painting.”

The execution is an orchestrated whirlwind of brushstrokes that hurls round the barrel uninterruptedly and spontaneously – just like nature’s elements flow in and out our daily lives and also influence wine’s creation.

Pace’s painting is dominated by a surrealistic representation of Zephyr, the god of gentle winds and spring, and of dancers, light and euphoric, who personify celebratory sparkling wine. Together, their presence evokes the spark in wine, which tumultuously gushes in barrel and bottle when poured. It’s a sense of swaying and a playfulness or that sensation which overcomes you when you put your lips to the glass.

The ten artist finalists for this year’s 2019 Bettija’rt | wine.art.living are Joseph Barbara, Claire Attard Vella, David Xuereb, Caroline Said Lawrence, Carmel Bonello, Zack Ritchie, Francis Galea, Priscilla Gatt, Donald Camilleri and Sara Pace.

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