About
Sarah Simonds is a fibre artist. Her creative journey began in an early childhood attending Forest School where she learnt about basic knotting, weaving and dying techniques from the simplest natural materials.
From this point forward and throughout Sarah’s career, she has drawn on these skills to help to create her work and develop her artistic style. She’s always had an affinity with nature, and always been inspired by its movement, form, colour palette and texture.
Sarah is in her element when working with natural plant fibres: the smell, imperfection and rawness – her amazing sensory experience. From collecting and preparing materials, to the unique movement and rhythm of coiling, knotting or weaving. It’s completely visceral, joyful and truly meditative. Many of the materials she works with are from the direct locality and her own garden.
She forages and gathers materials mostly on foot and cuts foliage from the base of the stem, encouraging fresh growth. The Jute and Raffia she uses is ethically traced and sustainably sourced. Her work is also completely compostable.
Sarah is a passionate believer that you can create something very special from very little. From creating large scale work to hand forming coiled vessels, her work often depicts movement and is created to be handled as texture and tactility are key in her practice.
Inspiration can take so many forms for Sarah – her connection with nature and its organic forms, places, history and experiences.
Quite unexpectedly for Sarah, many of her pieces have drawn attention of people all over the world, appearing in interior and commercial settings around the globe. She received multiple commissions for the work as a practitioner and a ‘consultant’ leading to her work being featured in domestic and commercial locations, TV set design, and more recently on a film set.
