Bio
About My Work
My paintings are portals, invitations to step into transformation, paradox, and the unseen. Rooted in spirituality, emotion, and the feminine source of creation, they are meant to be felt as much as seen. They are a balm for the spirit.
Through layered acrylics, intuitive movement, and symbolic imagery, I create compositions that confront dualities: chaos and order, shadow and light, grounding and transcendence. Each piece begins in stillness and unfolds through color, gesture, and inner guidance. I approach the canvas as a collaborator, following where the energy wants to go. Painting is both a surrender and a declaration, a living conversation with the divine, the earth, and the unseen energy that binds them.
As a Reiki Master, I integrate this practice into my art and daily life. It is a quiet current of intention that runs beneath the surface, charging the work with vibrational presence and holding space for healing and balance. Some paintings root themselves in the natural world, others rise from spiritual depths, but all carry the pulse of paradox: visible and invisible, personal and universal.
Color is a living force in my practice, a transformative presence that awakens clarity and stirs emotion. I treat it as a guide, carrying the power to nurture balance and renewal, and to open pathways of connection between body, spirit, and memory. This devotion to color shapes the heart of my work.
From this foundation, forms begin to take shape. Symbolism and nature-based imagery emerge alongside abstraction, shaped by lived experience and time with the land. Motherhood has deepened my sense of cycles and connection, an intimacy that flows into each painting.
These personal experiences and practices carry forward into my collections. Each reflects a facet of a larger vision: art that reconnects us to emotional wisdom, spiritual depth, and creative truth.
About the Artist
Darcy Lee Saxton is a visual artist and teacher whose work moves between the visible and unseen. Her paintings embody paradox: bold and subtle, grounded and transcendent, fierce and nurturing.
Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Darcy now lives and creates in Southern Utah with her husband and two children. She holds a B.A. in Art Education and a Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction and has been teaching and exhibiting her work since 2005. Her studies gave her a strong foundation in the visual arts, but her deepest growth has come through cultivating her own voice and lived experience.
Her paintings have been exhibited across the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West and are held in private collections nationally and abroad. Select works are available through the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture’s Art Source program, locally at Gallery 873, and at venues in Southern Utah.
Darcy has shared her love of art in many settings, from school classrooms to museums to community workshops and private lessons. Locally, she teaches at MakeSpace in the Kayenta Art Village and in private workshops, where she nurtures space for adults to explore and express. She has also extended her teaching to children through an illustrated book that playfully introduces color mixing, available on Amazon. Whether through painting or teaching, she invites people toward their own creative voice, affirming that art is not simply product, but a living source of connection and healing.
For private viewings, custom workshops, or creative collaborations, feel free to reach out directly.