Sara, who trained under Yoshiko Wada, creates silver and silk textiles using a new process she developed which combines the traditional Japanese dye technique of Shibori with silversmithing.  

She became fascinated with Shibori after visiting an exhibition of kimonos when she was a student at Glasgow School of Art and she then began to research the technique going two Crafts Council missions to Japan.

She won the Silver Prize for her work Silver Wishes in the Fiber Works category at the 4th Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2005 in Korea.

There were six UK makers among the 264 selected to exhibit and Sara was one of these, and the only one from Scotland.  Work was selected from the fields of ceramics, metal, wood, fiber and glass with 882 artists from 42 countries participating in the competition.

Silver Wishes is a large wall hanging of metallic textile panels made using a combination of resist techniques and electrolysis, a technique she developed with support from a Creative Development Award from the Scottish Arts Council. 

She is working on a textile and jewellery collaboration with Roger Morris for the national touring exhibition The Cutting Edge which will open in the Museum of Scotland in 2007. 

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