Sarah Myers

Sarah Myers is a self-taught artist born in 1980. She creates artworks in a varied and vivid range from simple line sketches in charcoal, ink or pencil to ornate figurative sculptures in ceramic.

“I am fascinated by direct representation of the human, their character, their physical nature; expressive faces, hands, movement. Always the great art of the past exerts a huge influence in guiding my understanding of what I see and record today. I want a brighter, larger world for myself and others, a future full of light and vitality. I experienced a dark, isolated childhood with controlling influences I have only escaped as a mature adult; and through all of this the art, which I worked on from before I could read or write, formed another sphere; an existence in which there could be grandeur, excitement, good-nature; even simply hope. It's my desire to bring this sense of possibility and beauty to those looking at or owning my creations.

From 2003 onward I have been using special ceramic materials in my sculpture, earthenwares and stonewares from formulas originated by my sister Amy Myers.

New and old, light and shadow, motion and stillness, all definite, intense, and ultimately responding to human l...

Self-trained. In reversal of a typical approach, I have been studying ways to combine an intellectual foundation of progressive modernism and ultra-contemporary with the vast human impetus found in classical museum art. Since 2003 I have been experimenting with specially formulated ceramic clays originated by my sister and fellow artist/ceramist Amy Myers, and over the years have developed unique techniques of structure, hand-building and surface treatment. My minimal line-drawings, another favorite form, are a more spontaneous inquiry into the relationship between modern and traditional, and this long sequence, essentially beginning in 2013, was the fruit of in-depth research attempting to pin-point areas of relation between the famous icons of modernism and the long-loved images originated by Old Masters and ancient artisans.