About the Artist
My workspace
Sarah Thomas is a Textile Designer by Profession and a fiber artist in her spare time. she enjoys experimenting with varied techniques using mediums like fabrics, paper, paint, dye, and other objects such as plastic, wood, twigs, leaves.
Artist’s Statement
Ever since I can remember I have been fascinated with textures, colours and patterns. As a child I often found my self getting lost in our backyard, studying the moss covered brick wall, making anything and everything, using all that I could find, drawing patterns in the clouds. My memories are filled with the bright pinkish orange sky of dusk and the deep blackish grey monsoons, the green coconut trees, the shockingly pink button flowers that grew outside everyone’s homes. Faces and events are a blur to me but what I do remember is the feel of the cold rains stinging my face, the roads shining like mirrors in the night.
Once I started college in the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore, I began to find a new found love for textiles. The feel of the yarn, the colours, the techniques, the endless possibilities! Textiles connect us with our roots – when we are born it is one of the first things we are introduced to, and when we die it is one of the last. It is an ever present part of our memories. Like a vessel it can carry familiar feelings and emotions through their touch and smell. Ammachie’s thread box, old threads and buttons, treasures to a child! Scraps of precious fabrics saved from old clothes – each with its own memories of a person, an occasion, like a textile scrapbook.
August 10, 2008 at 6:46 pm
He Sarah this blog beautiful,
the stuff you have made they
are just awesome, i love the
crochet work.
March 31, 2009 at 4:50 am
I love your site. Keep it up !
April 14, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Wow!!! Sarah, never knew you were so talented. Amazing! Keep up the good work. And will definitely have to place an order for your work next time I’m down.
August 5, 2009 at 10:29 am
kudos WO-MAN!! The Silk work are simply too good,your work has a very unique identity and appeal , can I see the fibre casting work as well??
February 16, 2010 at 5:51 pm
beautiful dyework and eye for color.
June 21, 2010 at 5:58 am
I went through ur blog and have no words to say about ur amazing sense of creativity. Wish i were someplace close by to give you a helping hand cause it looks so much fun along with the hard work u put in and the great satisfaction that u get.What a lovely profession to get ones hand dirty, sticky and colourful and at the end of it create something so unique.