When Sarah Beetson was seven years old, she had three ambitions – to win Wimbledon, to be a rock star, and to illustrate a children’s book like Quentin Blake. She’s come pretty close to meeting that third ambition, and has major clients in fashion, editorial and publishing. She also shows in galleries around the world.
Sarah spends most of her year in Queensland, Australia, returning to the UK for a few months now and again, on top of her other globetrotting endeavours such as a three-month artist in residency at Coney Island, New York.
Sarah graduated from Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall, and won the Pentland Prize for Fine Art the same year. She then spent 4 years in London working in fashion, illustration and design in-house at Yellowdoor, Pop and The Face magazines and completed a 7 month print design internship at Stella McCartney. A commission followed to decorate the walls of the shoe room of Stella's Bruton Street shop. Since then, she has built a career as a freelance artist and illustrator, exhibiting work in London, Paris, Portland, New York, Ottawa, Adelaide, Melbourne and The Gold Coast, Australia; where she now lives. Sarah creates all elements within her work by hand with paint, pens and mixed media paraphenalia, layering in photoshop if required.