SARAH WILLIAMS

Currently based in North Yorkshire, UK, in Kirkbymoorside, the Gateway to the Moors,
Sarah was born in York 1961, and brought up in the world of the arts.

She first studied at York College, before gaining entrance to Norwich School of Art, where she earned a
first class degree with honours, and an award from the Royal Academy. She has exhibited her paintings worldwide, and has also achieved publicity and acclaim for her work in interior design, garden design, fashion, furniture design, graphics and achitectural drawing.
She now feels that her considerable experience in all fields of art has coalesced into her creation of
Butterfly Buckles.
"My aim is to give the thrill of layers of texture, shape, colour and light - with extreme sparkle -
using the best quality Austrian swarovski.
Each buckle is an individual painting, exhibited on the living, in the real world.
What better gallery could you have?".

Sarah's whole family are, and always were, involved in the arts - as she put it:
"The only one who wasn't, was a vicar."

Sarah is the daughter of Reginald Williams (one of the York Four).
A painter and sculptor, he too studied many areas of art. He was awarded by the Queen for his achievements in the world of the arts, and his work adorns many buildings and universities -
he also designed and made abstract resin and fibreglass windows,
and a church in Wombwell was built around these.
"He absorbed every colour shape surface sound using all his senses with a great passion.
He lived life to the full, to me he was like a full bodied red wine."

Sarah's mother, Rosemary Williams, designed the Kangol beret, and was deeply involved in the world of fashion, having such friends as Zandra Rhodes.
"My mother was a perfect crystal, the purest white, the brightest light, not only to me, but everyone who came into contact with her. Love is not a strong enough word for the way I feel about my parents, the devastation that I felt, and feel, losing them both is indescribable. I described their deaths to my children in the best way that I could. We crawl through life like a caterpillar and when we die we become a chrysalis so that we can hatch out on the other side as the most incredibly beautiful butterflies, a miracle."

Sarah has her body tattooed with her own designs of butterflies.
"I am my work and my work is me, as one".