FIGURATION

Portraits, self-portraits, figures – the works shown here extend the central concern of the practice into the human realm. Faces are drawn in pencil and colored pencil, often paired with an animal, a plant, an architectural fragment. These pairings are not allegorical. They place the figure within the same field of relations that shapes the other drawings: a sense that the human body is never separate from what surrounds it.
The line stays quiet. What interests the work is presence and identity.

Inhabit 1, figuration, pencil 2026, Sara Heinrich
„Inhabit 1“ pencil 2026 © Sara Heinrich
Inhabit 2, figuration, chalk, pencil 2026, Sara Heinrich
„Inhabit 2“ chalk pencil 2026 © Sara Heinrich
Self-portrait with hummingbird, figuration, colored pencil 2025, Sara Heinrich
„Self-portrait with hummingbird“ colored pencil 2025 © Sara Heinrich
Hannah Arendt Portrait, figuration, charcoal pencil, Sara Heinrich
„Hannah Arendt Portrait“ charcoal pencil 2026 © Sara Heinrich
Quinn, figuration, pencil 2023, Sara Heinrich
„Quinn“ pencil 2023 © Sara Heinrich
Elderly, figuration, red chalk 2025, Sara Heinrich
„Elderly“ red chalk 2025 © Sara Heinrich
Dragonfly Valentine, figuration, colored pencil 2025, Sara Heinrich
„Dragonfly Valentine“ colored pencil 2025 © Sara Heinrich
"Listen, figuration, pencil 2025, Sara Heinrich
„Listen“ pencil 2025 © Sara Heinrich
Odins daughter Self-portrait, in progress, figuration, gouache 2023, Sara Heinrich
„Odins daughter Self-portrait in progress“ gouache 2023 © Sara Heinrich
Self-portrait after Georges de La Tour, figuration, egg tempera 2006, Sara Heinrich
„Self-portrait after Georges de La Tour“ egg tempera 2006 © Sara Heinrich
Irmgard, figuration, colored pencil, pigment 2025, Sara Heinrich
„Irmgard“ colored pencil, pigment 2025 © Sara Heinrich
Wassily Kandinsky, figuration, linoprint 2007, Sara Heinrich
„Wassily Kandinsky“ linoprint 2007 © Sara Heinrich
Georgia O´Keeffe 1, figuration, pen ink 2005, Sara Heinrich
„Georgia O’Keeffe 1“ pen ink 2005 © Sara Heinrich
Georgia O'Keeffe 2, figuration, pen ink 2005, Sara Heinrich
„Georgia O’Keeffe 2“ pen ink 2005 © Sara Heinrich
Moin, figuration, pen charcoal 2022, Sara Heinrich
„Moin“ pen charcoal 2022 © Sara Heinrich
Alexandra, figuration, pencil 2022, Sara Heinrich
„Alexandra“ pencil 2022 © Sara Heinrich
Tara Bodhisattva, figuration, mixed media 2022, Sara Heinrich
„Tara Bodhisattva“ mixed media 2022 © Sara Heinrich
Archangel Michael, figuration, pen ink gouache 2022, Sara Heinrich
„Archangel Michael“ pen ink gouache 2022 © Sara Heinrich