Sarah has always had a very spontaneous and intuitive approach when making her artwork, she creates highly sophisticated, over the top images, which are purely imaginative and fantastical. She employs as many different methods of mark making as she can lay her hands on, obsessively layering and relayering.

Images may be inspired by memories, stories and things she has seen, always added to by her own unique way of seeing, she wishes to entice and encourage the viewer to look deeper into the images and get involved.

Sarah is inspired by primitive arts, niave art, outsider and childrens art, folk art and fairgrounds, tapestries, pottery, grand old houses, old toys and things a lot of people may have long since forgotten.

Click on thumbnails for full image and details of the how the idea for the image developed.

"Over the last year I have produced a new series of work under the title of 'Pure Vision', all pieces are original prints which have been worked into with collage and hand colouring"

All pieces measure 96 x84 cm framed unless stated otherwise. All pieces are for sale.

Love is,

Twinkle.

Elizabeths Journey

Jacobs Animals

Jazz Opera

Ride

New World

Paradise

Faraway Land.

Strutt your stuff

Tea with Emily,

Other artworks made previously. These incorporate a wide mix of media from printmaking, chalk pastel, photography and collage.

Freaks Night Out, Drypoint plate on perspex, NFS

She surrenders, Chalk Pastel, 70cm x 100cm framed £600

DR. Puppenstubes, photo with drawing, 4x6" NFS

Walking stars, aquatint, A2, £180

Wonderland, digital print, edition of 50, 23x 25 cm £65

C.V.

D.O.B. 29.5.1973

ART EDUCATION

1995 - 97 Pg/Dip Comunication Design , Illustration, 'DISTINCTION'

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.

1992 - 95 BA(Hons) Graphic Design, Illustration, 'FIRST CLASS'

Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich.

1991 - 92 Art and Design Foundation Course, 'DISTINCTION'

Chesterfield College of Art and Design.

CAREER HISTORY

Professional Artist and Art workshop leader - ongoing.

2006 Set up own business : THe NORTH NOTTS NON TOXIC PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP.

2005 Set up own business. The Specialist Artist Printmaking Consultancy. To promote and increase awareness of the non-toxic Intaglio-type printmaking technique, through provision of exhibitions and by providing expertise regarding setting up and training of the technique.

Artist Access to Art Colleges scheme in Printmaking, Derby University.

2002-04 Artist in Residence at West Yorkshire Print workshop, supported by Arts

Council England to research and develop the non toxic Intaglio-type printmaking technique.

2002 Artist in Residence, Seedlings Arts Festival, Hatfield House.

2000-01 Artist Access to Art Colleges Scheme in Printmaking, Lincolnshire and Humberside University.

1991-2001 Studio Holder and Arts Education Officer, Crescent Arts, Scarborough.

1998-99 Artescape Fellowship in Painting, Sturton by Stow, Lincolnshire,

1998 May Burton Agnes Hall, Residency in Painting, Driffield, North Yorkshire.

1998 Feb-April Arts Residencey in Illustration, Bourn Cambridgeshire.

EXHIBITIONS Click on Gallery name to see work

Sarah has exhibited widely all over the U.K and abraod. She has exhibited work in over 80 exhibitions including shows at the Royal College of Art, Mall Galleries, Lethaby and Conningsby Gallery and Pentagram Design Studios London. The Cupola Gallery - Sheffield, Artonomy,- Truro, Wrexham Memorial Gallery, Hull, Leicester and Derby City Galleries, The Cooper Gallery - Barnsley, The Salt Gallery - Hayle, Cornwall, The Ropewalk- Barton on Humber, Lincs., and many more.