Welcome!
Visibility isn’t just about being seen - it’s about being seen thriving, resting, loving, and expressing oneself authentically without apology.
My artwork and jewelry have connected me with so many people who value this too. Thank you for taking the time to visit my website and explore my work. It means the world to me and I'm incredibly grateful!
About the artist
I create paintings and jewelry that celebrate queer peace, safety, and joy – the kind of representation that's nearly absent from our cultural landscape.
While visibility around queer struggle is vital, it's made queerness synonymous with trauma. We're seen in our pain but rarely in our softness. My paintings center quiet domesticity and function as visual refuges – spaces of relief that insist we deserve not just survival, but celebration.
My jewelry extends this philosophy into what we wear. Through fluid forms and inclusive design (extended ring sizes, pieces for all bodies and genders), I create adornment that honors identity as something constantly becoming, not fixed. Each piece is entirely hand-crafted.
Both practices ask the same question: how do we not just survive, but thrive? My answer is creating beauty that holds us – whether it's a painting offering a moment of refuge, or identity-affirming jewelry. Through my work, I reach out to my community to remind us of our worthiness, our naturalness, and our right to exist softly and loudly, however we choose.
Sabine Strauch (she/her) was born in 1997 in Boston, Massachusetts. She holds a BFA from Cornell University and an MA in Art Education from Tufts University. She currently lives and works as a painter and jewelry artist in San Francisco.
My story...
I've always been an artist
I grew up in Massachusetts in a household that valued creativity above all. My grandmother was a watercolor artist who taught me that art exists beyond the canvas – it's in what we wear, how we arrange our homes, and in the ways we show love.
I spent my childhood daydreaming, drawing, making fairy houses in the woods, and stringing beaded jewelry. I was always creating something.
Art helped me understand myself
In high school, I spent every lunch period in the art room. That classroom is where I processed what it meant to be growing up and different. Creating gave me language for feelings I couldn't yet name.
In college, I explored queerness, gender, and identity through painting. Making art about who I was becoming helped me actually become her. I came out in 2018.
I met my wife the same year I came out
Also in 2018, I met Basia. She immediately felt like someone I'd known forever.
We started dating, I came out fully, and in 2024 we got married. We love long city walks, DIY home projects, playing tennis, cooking together, and traveling whenever we can. She's my favorite person!
Teaching brought me back to jewelry
After college, I worked at a NYC gallery, then got my teaching degree. Basia and I moved to Boston where I taught high school art and metalworking.
To teach metals, I had to learn it myself first. Those late hours in my classroom teaching myself to solder made me fall completely back in love with making jewelry – my childhood passion, now with grown-up skills.
Now I make art full time
I loved my students and teaching was deeply rewarding, but I knew I wanted more time for my own practice.
In 2024, Basia and I moved to San Francisco and I took the leap: full-time painter and jewelry artist.
As a queer female business owner (we're less than 1% of U.S. businesses), I'm committed to bringing inclusive jewelry and queer representation into homes worldwide. I create art that's meant to be cherished for lifetimes and passed down through generations.
My greatest joy is connecting with people like you through what I make.
Thank you for being here!