Sarah Hankinson is a Melbourne-based artist, illustrator, muralist, and art educator. Inspired by the natural world, Sarah has a passion for botanical, landscape, and still life painting and drawing.
Art
Sarah’s paintings and drawings reflect the world around us. Her scenes, often featuring flowers and landscapes created using a variety of mixed media, foster a sense of place and an appreciation of the environment we inhabit.
Through her artwork, workshops, and community projects, Sarah creates opportunities for connection and creativity. She is passionate about engaging, encouraging, and inspiring others by sharing her knowledge, skills, and love of art.
Drawing Club
Drawing Club is a casual still life drawing session hosted by Sarah, offering time and space to draw from observation in a relaxed, social setting.
Held at Bar for Now in Balaclava, Drawing Club runs on the first Wednesday of every month from 7–8.30pm.
Murals
Sarah transforms spaces with her murals featuring oversized flowers and foliage. She has created murals for schools, hospitals, residential homes and businesses.
In her illustration and art practice, Sarah demonstrates a deft ability to successfully utilise a range of mixed media - from rich, layered oil pastels to dynamic watercolour washes - harmonising both traditional and modern techniques.
Illustration
Specialising 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.
Workshops
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.
Community Art
Through community art projects including collaborative murals, residencies, activations and hands on workshops Sarah works with children, young people and adults.
Art Incursion
Sarah runs a in school art workshop incursion program titled ‘Wellbeing through Nature and Art’ The incursion consists of drawing games, art exercises and collaborative projects.
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.
Sarah is available for art and mural commissions, commercial illustration work, workshops, mentoring, activations, incursions, residencies and more. Get in touch to enquire, collaborate or connect.
Contact
Every project is approached with creativity, collaboration and attention to detail. Reach out to Sarah here