The Adventures of Ten Wiggly Fingers

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.