Sarah has been tutoring art for the last three years in Nelson, where she has a very loyal student following. She teaches the traditional skills of drawing, painting, preparing canvases and a variety of Renaissance and Contemporary painting techniques, as well as far less traditional techniques of sculpture using the unique qualities of paper clay. Her passion is to explore the huge variety of techniques there are in historical art processes and applying them with her students within a contemporary context to discover which best suit their developing art practice, believing that having the knowledge and experience of this variety of techniques in ones 'toolbox' leads to much more competent self expression in the long run.

Sarah has been a full time artist since 2005, having a portrait touring the country as a finalist in the 2010 Adam Portrait Awards, work selected for the Peter Doig Art Awards amongst a number of others. She sells sculptural work through galleries in Nelson and Wellington, as well as having them sold through the NZ Art Show 2011, and the 'Gift' exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington. Her portraits are either drawn in pastel or painted in oil, her customers come from many countries in the world.

Previous to her art career Sarah was an IT Project Manager, and a Graphic Designer. Her move to full time art being a reaction to the changes in the world of design that removed all the drawing materials from the studio and replaced them with computers.

The following link is to the work in her November 2011 student exhibition  http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150489924452009.429233.515577008&type=1&l=9e9b2f9a6e  There were 99 pieces of work in the exhibition, some from students who have worked with her for more than 2 years, others who have only been attending her classes for a few weeks. The quality of the artwork speaks for itself.

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