Statement

Sarah is a visual artist creating small batch functional and sculptural ceramics and mixed media paintings from her home studio on Vancouver Island, BC.

With a passion for exploring new ideas, materials and techniques, Sarah often moves between painting and ceramics with each medium inspiring work in the other. The forms, textures, colours and cycles found in nature are a consistent source of inspiration for Sarah and can be found embedded in all the work she creates. The materials she chooses to work with are carefully considered in order to evoke the ever-present undercurrent of tension between human-made versus natural. 

A juxtaposition of sinuous and solid. Brush strokes in paint and scratches in clay are left deliberately as acknowledgement of both the materials and the maker. Flowing inks meet mark-making and mounds of clay become vessels to house the very plants that started as inspiration. Sarah continues to explore the symbiotic, and more often parasitic, relationships between humans and nature and expresses those connections through her work.

Sarah’s current sculptural ceramic series is centred around examination of some of the smaller organisms that make up our biological communities. Patterns and textures inspired by seed pods, buds, fungi, moss and lichen are layered and combined to weave a story about birth, growth, death and decomposition, all while enquiring where we fit into this ever-shifting narrative.