M.K. Sadler / Candela (red) Photographs take in the moment

take in the moment

layered textures

and where softness is redefined as a commanding presence

This encouragement led her to photography

and colour to create striking portraits

M.K. Sadler / Candela (red) Photographs take in the momentM. K. Sadler is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, collage, design, and photography. Her work is deeply observational and playful, exploring emotional spaces, grief, and queerness. M. K. grew up in Southeast Texas, looking up at walls filled with the ink paintings her grandmother had collected during her childhood in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Her grandmothers influence, alongside a degree in Communication Design and over ten years