Sara Steele, a Philadelphia-based painter working primarily in watercolor, recently showed her work at the Gallery of O. C. Peters on Bainbridge Island.

Steele has had 43 one-person exhibitions, including her first international show at Casa de Cultura, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. Her work is included in over 200 public and private collections.

Steele has done several artist-in-residencies nationally, and has taught and lectured at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, Colo., Coupeville Arts Center on Whidbey Island, and Bryn Mawr College, among others.

Her public art projects include installations at City Hall Courtyard in Philadelphia, benefits for such organizations as Women Against Abuse, and the organizing and curating of two national juried shows featuring the work of artists with disabilities for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

She has presented at numerous universities, conferences and community centers around the U.S., as well as at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Steele’s work has been published and presented in a variety of media since 1979, including two video documentaries, and a monograph of her work, In Bloom, The Floral Art of Sara Steele, was published in 1994. Her calendars, have been published annually since 1981 and distributed internationally.

Among her current projects is a series of 90 digitally published posters, some of which will promote and benefit feminist, ecological, and other organizations and causes with which the artist has long been linked. She is presently collaborating with poet Susan Windle on a scrapbook and a series of broadsides.

For more information on Steele or her work, call (206) 842-7700, or visit her Web site at www.sarasteele.com.