"Sciarra is as pleased with the public’s response to her art as it is with her appealing style.

Her highly personal idiom is brilliant and imaginative. Bright colors, rich textures, lavish patterns, a lack of perspective, and an arabesque of line characterize her intensely decorative style.

Perhaps her emotional sincerity accounts for her quick rise to regional popularity. Right off the bat, Sciarra’s paintings were a big hit.

Earlier this year, she had her inaugural solo show at the Chapin School’s gallery in Princeton Township. Said gallery curator Sue Cook, ‘She’s getting quite a following in this town. Her work is refreshing, colorful, and bright. I love the detailing, the playfulness. Every time you look at her paintings, you see more. I think she’s got a great future ahead of her.’

Sciarra likes to do paintings within paintings. Labeling her style is difficult. Although she has been classified as a primitive, this category doesn’t do her justice. Sciarra’s work is too sophisticated for that.

Like Marc Chagall, the realm she creates is a personal vision of an inner world--every person, object and scene is filtered by her imagination. Her colors, as well, favor Chagall-like pinks, acid greens, and transparent blues. Like Pierre Bonnard, her world is conveyed with a gentle tenderness, while Matisse is echoed in her sumptuous patterns.

Still, her style remains her own creation, the product of pure vision. "

-Cathie Viksjo, The Trenton Times

"It is incongruous--but comfortably so--to be surrounded by Fay Sciarra’s warmly detailed acrylic ‘homescapes.’

Sciarra may be, as recently described, ‘untutored’ in art, but she is hardly unknowing.

Her result is clearly a success: beautifully detailed surfaces and textures, unusual furniture and fabrics, warmth, comfort, color.

Fay Sciarra is to her pictures as Ralph Lauren is to fashion: both pull from the golden past, the wished-for, the life that often never was--that is nonetheless warmly evocative. Both produce comfortable looks that, in Sciarra’s case anyway, are the result of constant research and adaptation. Her world--both her pictures and her home setting--is an antidote to international politics, best sellers, TV violence, and road rage. It’s not a world we recognize, but one we would like to recognize and inhabit."

-Pat Summers, U.S.1

"To see Sciarra’s enthusiasm about her art is contagious. Imaginative and quirky, this Lawrenceville artist is a refreshing emerging talent in the local arts scene. Quickly gaining in popularity, her highly original paintings are filled with genuine affection for her family and things of the heart."

-Cathie Viksjo, The Trenton Times