M.K. Sadler / Candela (red) Photographs and colour to create striking

and colour to create striking portraits

By Toronto-based photographer

and where softness is redefined as a commanding presence

she molds and manipulates strips of canvas to echo these frequencies

Colour acts as both an emotional anchor and structural device

M.K. Sadler / Candela (red) Photographs and colour to create strikingM. 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