Sarah has been drawing and painting since childhood. She attended Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, where she studied illustration, and the University of New Hampshire in Durham, from which she received a BA in Studio Art, with a concentration in Lithography. While attending UNH, she also attended the Shoals Marine Laboratory on site Biological Illustration program under full scholarship.
Sarah works out of her studio on Westport Island in Maine. Her subjects vary greatly from boats, shoreline scenes and seascapes, to imaginary landscapes, dream imagery, greeting cards and children's illustrations. She is inspired by nature, imagination and dreams.
She works in a variety of media – lithography, pen and ink, watercolor, and oils and soft pastel. Her work has shown at the River Tree Arts Center in Kennebunk, the Chocolate Church in Bath, as well as in local shops in Midcoast Maine. She participated in the Painterly Day and Art Auction at Laudholm Farms in Wells, Maine. Her work hangs in private collections in Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts. She is a member of the Round Top Center for the Arts, where she is active in the print program, as well as The Chocolate Church Arts Center, The Pastel Painters of Maine and the Westport Island Artist Alliance.
Sarah is also a Licenced Massage Therapist and Shiatsu Practitioner. She studied at the Downeast School of Massage in Waldoboro, Maine. She is Maine Licensed and Nationally Certified as a Massage Therapist and Bodyworker. She has an office on Westport, and works with the nearby Squire Tarbox Inn, providing massage and Shiatsu for the guests there.
Following the Maine tradition, Sarah has an ecclectic work experience. For the past several years, she has run a freelance boat varnishing and restoration business, and still continues to work on her favorite boats. She also works part time as a stern man on a lobster boat. Much of the inspiration for her work comes from her time working on beautiful boats, and being out on the water on the Maine coast.
When she is not painting pictures, doing massage, lobstering, or varnishing boats, she can be found writing, gardening, bicycling, co-chairing a charity group on the island, boating, sailing, or walking in the woods.