Sarah is a landscape and portrait artist and works mainly in oil but also watercolour and pastel. She loves painting landscapes outside where possible, sometimes competing in plein-air competitions. She enjoys the challenge, especially in difficult weather conditions (including the snow) but believes the experience of direct observation, including taking in the sounds and smells, helps capture the atmosphere in the painting. Sometimes she completes a study in one go and for more complicated scenes she returns at the same time of day as well as painting in the studio. She is inspired by water and recent work includes studies of the River Thames.
Portraits are usually painted from life in oil. In 2020 she made a series of portraits of NHS workers as a thank you for their work.
In 2020/1 Sarah drew a series of topical cartoons featuring the crow family called ‘Corvid 19’, inspired by a spelling mistake made by the local council in an article about Covid.