Sarah Hankinson is a Melbourne-based artist, illustrator, and muralist. Inspired by the natural world, Sarah has a passion for botanical, landscape, and still life painting and drawing. Her work invites us to deepen our appreciation of nature by illuminating the beauty of our surroundings. Through her work, Sarah encourages others to slow down, take notice, and foster a deeper connection with the environment.
Art Class: Flowers and Foliage Book
Join artist Sarah as she takes you through over 20 exercises and projects to create your own contemporary botanical art.
Art
Sarah’s painting and drawings reflect our natural world. The scenes, often flowers or landscapes in a variety of mixed media foster a sense of place and illuminate the beauty around us.
Sarah's dexterity to successfully utilise a range of mixed mediums, from rich, layered oil pastels to dynamic watercolour washes, harmonises both traditional and modern techniques. Her artworks are a visual ode to the profound beauty of the everyday which can be easily overlooked. They express the bounty of nature and the way we connect with, and are part of, our natural environment.
Murals
Sarah transforms spaces with her murals featuring oversized flowers and foliage. She has created murals for schools, hospitals, residential homes and businesses.
Illustration
Working in the fields of botanical, property, travel, lifestyle, beauty, advertising, food, wine, events, fashion and marketing Sarah is an established illustrator. Some of her commercial clients include Prada, Harrods, Anthroplogie, Vogue, SBS, Cadbury, Maybelline, Dove and Tourism Australia.
Working within the community, Sarah is passionate about engaging, encouraging, and inspiring others by sharing her love and knowledge of art.
Community Art
Through community art project’s including collaborative murals, school incursions, residencies and hands on workshops Sarah works with children, young people and adults.
Botanical Art and Mural Incursion
Sarah runs a in school botanical art and mural incursion program titled ‘Wellbeing through Nature and Art’, The incursion comprises a series of botanical art workshops culminating in painting a unique collaborative on-site mural.
Art Classes
Sarah frequently runs mixed media art classes and workshops designed to guide you through art making basics including observation, drawing skills, colour theory, tone and value, spacial relations, perspective and medium techniques.
Shop
View Sarah’s shop to see botanical and landscape giclee art prints, original paintings and drawings, art calendars and more for sale. Artworks are available unframed or framed in Tasmanian Oak.
Patreon
Join Sarah’s Patreon for behind-the-scenes content, art tutorials, process videos, prompts, references and more.
Get in touch..
Sarah is available for commercial illustration work, brand activations, live art, tutoring, workshops, incursions, residencies, murals, art commissions and more. Get in touch to enquire or say hi..