Generational Healing: The collaboration story between me and my mom

November 24, 2025

I’m Sarah Tremain, but it’s also my mother’s name.

When both her daughters were born, Rebecca Tremain Smith gave each of us one of her names. I got Tremain, my sister got Rebecca. My mother was honoring herself and reclaiming the way names are passed.

If you look at my logo, you’ll see I’ve honored this. Sarah is written in my handwriting, while Tremain is written in my mom’s.

And when people ask me why I use her art as prints, I smile.
Because the answer is more than just art.
It’s bloodline.
It’s a story.
It’s healing.

My mom, Tremain Smith, is an encaustic painter whose work has been anchoring galleries and sacred spaces for decades.

But it’s also me.

Honoring her art and healing process as a part of me, but also reworking it so that I honor what’s mine.

Transforming art into clothing—into ritual wear—into something that moves with you.

This collaboration isn’t just about design.

It’s about what happens when two generations of artists choose to co-create instead of repeat patterns.

From Panels to Clothing

My mom works with wax, pigment, and heat.
Her work is textured, sacred, and steeped in her process.
She paints what she feels. What she knows. What she remembers.

Before I knew I wanted to build this brand, back in school, I asked her advice on using a hard-edge artist, whom I could use for a draping assignment of printing on fabric and creating a garment.

At that moment, she responded, “Well, right now, I’m a hard-edge artist.”

And just like that, something new was born.

Now 14 years later, I’ve built a brand around her pieces being digitally translated into fabric prints— sometimes vibrant, sometimes subdued, usually reflected to create a symmetry — each one holding layers of history and emotional resonance.

I cut them. Drape them. Stitch them into jackets, scarves, garments that wrap people in color and care.

When you wear a Sarah Tremain piece printed with my mom’s art, you’re not just wearing a print.

You’re wearing decades of devotion.
Two women’s hands. Two lives learning how to live, love, and create more freely.
You’re wearing a story of reclamation. Of repair.

The Next Steps: The Healing in It

Our relationship has never been simple. In fact, it’s been so emeshed in most of my life that I didn’t know where my trauma began and my mother's ended.

There’s generational trauma, yes.

But there’s also generational creativity.

And that—when shared intentionally—can be a balm.

We didn’t just inherit pain.

We inherited art and the ability to heal together.
And that changes everything.

From Collaboration to Collective Healing

Now we’re creating more than clothing.

Through a lot of therapy, communication, and having grace for one another, we have landed in a new place.

A place where we can come together as artists and healers and help others in community heal along with us.

We’re co-hosting healing and mending workshops. Blending my work in upcycled fashion and personal storytelling with her deep knowledge of spiritual repair and sacred symbolism. Together, we’re building spaces where others can come to connect, reflect, and create from within.

The next one is a 2-part release and intention workshop grounded in reflection, creative transformation, and communal support.

Through a blend of community circle, guided meditation, and upcycling garments, we’ll explore the themes of release and intention as we close one year and open another.

You’ll leave with a one-of-a-kind piece of clothing transformed by your own hand—marked by the things you’re letting go of, and stitched with the intentions you’re choosing to carry forward.

🎟️ One ticket will include access to both sessions (8 hours total). Grab Yours here