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This week we have a two part series with artist Anna Sadler of Scottsdale-based business Surface Refinements. In Part 1, Anna delves into her work, her craft and the various projects she’s worked on. In Part 2, her and husband Scott talk about their personal life and how they started their business. Anna shares all the amazing places she’s lived and visited and all the stories, people and projects that came with those places. Anna’s life and craft have so many incredible details, we couldn’t limit her to just one hour!

Encouraged from a young age to enjoy and explore her artistic side, Anna has “passionately spent most of my life in one creative endeavor or another.” In the early ’90s, she owned and operated two art galleries in Monte Carlo, France where she was able to spend time with their mostly- international clientele and met many world-renowned artists. “I will never forget these experiences as they were life changing!” she recounts.

Years later, Anna moved to Canada to be near family where she met and married her second husband, Scott Sadler who joins us in Part 2. In 2005, the happy couple moved to Arizona, and today they own and operate Surface Refinements in Scottsdale, AZ. They are a decorative painting company that specialize in creating artistic finishes for walls, ceilings and furniture. They also create custom large scale art on canvas, and do highly realistic antiquing of mirrors, far more authentic in nature than commercially “antiqued” mirrors. “We have an endless array of products that we employ in creating a finish, everything from actual mica flakes, glass beads, glitters, patterned foils, metallic and various other unique plasters, Italian Venetian plasters, Swarovski crystals, gold and silver leaf, pigmented mica powders, etc.”