Born in Coventry, Sarah settled in Carmarthenshire to study Wildlife Illustration. She worked freelance for a number of years before returning to Carmarthen School of Art where she now runs Access to Art whilst continuing to paint and exhibit.

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Sarah's latest body of work focuses on the visual language of the land and how it has been shaped. Her landscapes are almost empty of human presence, showing only the raw design left behind: stripped back boundaries, thickets and thin stands, tracks and river bends. She is preoccupied with the edge of the land where cultivation and wildness coincide, and revisits favourite places repeatedly to try and capture what makes landscape so compelling. Working en plein air is an essential element of her process, supporting and augmenting work produced in the studio.

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She paints on panel, paying close attention to surface detail and overpainting with delicate, muted glazes to achieve depth. She also works back with imprints and marks to give expression, paying close attention to the finished surface. These surfaces also show signs of manipulation, with details scratched into the panel.