Sarah Symes

I've had a passion for making art with fabric from a young age. I studied Architecture at the prestigious University College London, before training and working as a Graphic Designer. I have lived in many places, including London, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver. I currently live with my husband in Ottawa, Canada.

I aspire to recreate my internal experiences of places and people through my work. It represents an abstraction of real life, infused with memories and ideas evoked by the subject. I try to conjure emotion through color and manipulate composition to suggest familiar forms and landscapes.

My artwork has been exhibited in the USA, Canada and Europe and featured in a number of magazines and newspapers. I was awarded the Best of Show prize by the Los Angeles Art Association in 2007. My work hangs in private collections worldwide.