Sarah Trundle is a Charlottesville, Va. painter who, after beginnings in representational art, now works primarily in abstraction.

Her unique and many-layered paintings range from bold, geometric, brightly colored abstracts, to serene, monochromatic, minimalism. These seemingly disparate styles evidence the relationship between order and chaos, between simplicity and complexity, that fuels her process.

Her work is an exploration of the interdependence of these seemingly opposite concepts. Rarely working in a serial way, each painting represents a unique end result of a constantly shifting and evolving process. Her approach is one of obscuring and re-defining, of complicating and consolidating, of taking risks to see what surprises emerge to inform each subsequent step, and eventually lead to the final balance that gives her that "aha!!" moment and finishes the painting. The simplicity of the final product thus often belies the complexity of its creation.