Sara Burgess

Sara Burgess has worked with paper, printing and books arts for over 20 years. She has taught and exhibited in North America and Europe and enjoys sharing her knowledge and love of paper art. Sara studied printmaking in Canada where she earned her BA and then studied Illustration in San Francisco obtaining her MFA.

Paper is my primary medium. Simultaneously strong and vulnerable as a material, I cut, fold, weave and print with it to express my ideas.

PROCESS
I find that something intriguing and original happens when I cut into paper to create forms and images, treating the negative space as an element of the overall language. To me, the simple relationship between positive and negative forms expresses my vision and thinking.

INSPIRATION
I grew up in Wales, where the country lanes were lined with brilliant green nettles, fiddlehead ferns, and endless brambles populated with snails. When I moved to Vancouver Island, that world was smooth rocks, more ferns, and trilliums. Moving again to Marin County, near San Francisco, Queen Anne’s lace, variegated echium, and golden California poppies surrounded the winding trails. The smallest details in each place made the memories that shape the images I cut. Detail and materials hol...

BFA University of Victoria
Printmaking
MFA Academy of Art College
Illustration and graphic design

2021 Materials Matter, Group Show - Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, California USA

2017 Cut up/ Cut out, Group Show - Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington USA

2016 Cut up/ Cut out, Group Show - The Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California

2015 Tenth Annual Art of the Book - Group show - Seager Grey Gallery, Mill Valley, California USA

2015 Solo Exhibit - Atalier, Truckee, California USA

2015 CODEX, Craneway Pavilion, Richmond, California, USA

2014 AQUA Art Miami - Miami, Florida USA

2012 Exploding the Codex, Group Show - Throckmorton Theater, Mill Valley California USA

2011 Mill Valley Art Festival, Mill Valley, California USA

PUBLICATIONS

500 Paper Objects: New Directions in Paper Art (500 Series) Paperback – June 4, 2013
by Gene McHugh (Author)

Calligraphy for Greeting Cards and Scrapbooking Paperback – October 2, 2012
by Peter E. Taylor (Author)

Paper Art 1
Artpower Publications 2011