Sarah Warsop uses her many years’ experience as a professional dancer to create precious metal jewellery, paintings and drawings. Sarah’s drawing and painting is a direct response to the rhythms and the vitality contained within music, sound and movement. Duration and dynamic range suggest the timing and eventual scale of her work. Sarah’s energetic lines and colour layering are created with charcoal, graphite, powder pigments, pastels, metallic and acrylic paints.
After capturing the essence of a movement or sound onto paper, Sarah’s drawings become the basis for jewellery designs. Working directly from two dimensions into gold, silver and rough, uncut stones, Sarah makes sculptural pieces that hold the potency, and the memory of the original piece of music or dance. By forging onto metal stakes, pace, flow and direction is held within the object, creating a wearable moment in time.
