HCP #042 - Sarah Nystrom: Painting Joy, Living Local, and Finding Beauty in the Everyday

Elmwood artist Sarah Nystrom joins the show to talk about her life and work in Oak Cliff, raising young kids while building a creative practice, and why she keeps returning to Texas wildflowers and western iconography. We trace the roots of her creativity—from her grandmother’s quiet encouragement to college art classes, to the way her current work is shaped by the rhythms of motherhood. Sarah also shares how a family health crisis profoundly shifted her perspective—on her art, her family, and what she wants to put into the world. We talk about art as a place of refuge, the tension between perfection and play, and what it means to create in the margins of a full, complicated life.