Sarah lives with her family and a collection of dogs in a clay house on top of a hill, on the Far South Coast of NSW, overlooking the sea. 

Having started life as a painter she came to ceramics thirty years ago after meeting a fantastic group of potters in Mt Isa, Queensland. Her passion for clay was ignited, and she has spent her subsequent career combining her painting skills and pots to create work about the landscapes in which she has lived. 

Married to a mining engineer, Sarah has constantly moved between mining towns across Australia and Africa, before finding her place and settling in NSW. Drawing and painting the landscape is one of the ways Sarah uses to find her feet in each new place. Years of doing this led to a close observation and interest in how the landscape reveals its history. How every movement is mapped within the landscape. 

In the studio this interest is used to create forms and surfaces that help tell the story of each landscape. The forms remain functional, but reference shapes seen or felt within each place. The surfaces are scored, scratched, inlayed, scraped, painted, and drawn on with natural minerals, oxides, and clays.  

Sarah’s paintings are similarly layered with mixed media descriptions of the landscape, often using the same oxides and ochres found in the clay work.  

Sarah has exhibited throughout Australia and internationally She has successfully applied for residencies in Korea and Australia. Sarah has a number of degrees, including a Fine Arts Degree in Painting from Curtin University, Perth, and a Masters Degree in Ceramics from the Australian National University, Canberra.