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Sarah Matusiak has had a passion for art since she was a little girl. Growing up in Ottawa in a very artistic family, art has always been a constant in Matusiak’s life.
“It has probably been the only thing that has been a constant,” said Matusiak. When she was 18 she moved out of Ottawa to Jasper, Alta. and worked there for about six months.
After the seasonal work at Jasper was done Matusiak moved to Edmonton where she worked with children.
“I did a lot of arts and crafts with the kids; I did the programming for all of the activities.” Combining her passion for art as well as her drive to one day start a family was very rewarding.
 Family was the reason Matusiak returned to Ottawa roughly five years ago. Most recently Matusiak has worked at Mud Oven – a contemporary ceramic studio where people come in and paint their pieces of ceramics.
“It’s not about talent, it’s about enjoying it,” said Matusiak about the studio on Bank Street.
Matusiak’s long term goal is to move to Vancouver, where she has a lot of family, and pursue her art, but also start a family.
“Ottawa has a small art community. [Vancouver] career wise downtown there are streets of galleries. There is a lot of competition, but it is also the norm there.”
Matusiak is being realistic about her goals. She knows that in the art industry only a small percentage of people make it big and get the fame and fortune. She does not want the fame; however, she wants to do what she loves and combine art and a career in some way.
One of her options is art therapy, which, through the creative expression of art, can heal a person.
“[Art] is very healing,” said Matusiak. “It is satisfying to start something, and watch the progression and have something you created.”
“There are so many options with art.”
Matusiak’s favourite artist is Mark Riding, “He’s untrained so some of his things go against the technical training.”
Matusiak enjoys the surrealism style, “taking something from your subconscious ... creating something that doesn’t exist but now it exists because you created it.”
Matusiak’s hoping to find her true calling, and has a lot of options to choose from with her talent.
“I’m hoping to fall into what I’m going to do. It’s hard to know what’s right.”
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