About

In 2014 after years raising my children, pursuing a biology degree and working many dead end jobs, I began teaching myself how to make jewelry. Reconnecting with a childhood hobby of beadwork and wire wrapping I quickly realized I wanted to learn the skills required to do electroforming and silversmithing. Originally selling at local craft markets and through social media, in 2016 I launched my first online store through etsy, but soon realized I wanted better control of how I would market myself and in 2017 I launched my website (formerly Dead Lovely)

It has been an exciting journey so far full of ups and downs and with periods where I wasn't creating at all. The pressure of hustle culture so often takes away from the experience of creating. Finding Balance in that, connecting with what I truly want to express as an artist while also trying to make a living at it still often alludes me, as I think it does many.

Learning how to build a website and manage a business has been an uphill battle. I moved with my family a number of times in the last couple of decades. Facing a housing crisis where I live on the West Coast of Canada and adversity in other ways. I have long struggled with my mental health because of depression, anxiety, trauma and now at 42 years old learning I have adhd.

In 2019, after a recent move and an inability to set up my jewelry studio I picked up pencil and paper and rekindled my long lost love of visual art. Diving head first into working with pen and ink and exploring watercolours I soon remebered why I love to draw and paint and that has become a huge part of my life again over the last few years, perhaps saving me from feeling absolute desperation in this crazy world some of the time.

If you’re here it’s likely because you saw my art or jewelry on social media or perhaps we met at an art show or market and you were curious enough to seek out my work. For that I am incredibly humbled and grateful, it has taken me a long time to finally bring my art out of the closet and expose myself to the scrutiny of the public eye, while battling my own self doubt. My art and everything I try to create is a labour of love but it is also a means of healing from trauma, of escaping from the everyday chaos of life, and of calming and occupying my ever racing, nuerodivergent brain.

I want you all to know how grateful I am that you are here and I hope with these words I have conveyed that. It means everything to me to be able to share what has come from the deepest parts of myself, and that you have come to experience what I have to offer. If ever I had a doubt of my worth, my skill, my importance to existence, your curiosity and support have brought me through from that dark space and into a place of inspiration.

My eternal gratitude
Sarah