Sarah Stokes

Sarah is one of the founders of Olive & Plum and is a professional, published wildlife artist and author working from the beautiful Worcestershire countryside, in England. She specialises in watercolour and charcoal. 

 

Her warm and easy manner have made her watercolour and charcoal classes a firm favourite with beginners and improvers alike. 

 

She is also a passionate conservationist and animal lover and is constantly inspired by the birds and animals that live in the woodlands that surround her home and studio, on the banks of the River Severn. 

 

Sarah came to art pretty late in life. Having abandoned it at the age of 14, she started drawing again in her early 40’s and then took up watercolour very soon afterwards.  After attending advanced art classes in the USA and United Kingdom, Sarah became a professional artist in 2012, exhibiting and selling in major galleries and cruise liners as well as supplying retail giants such as Next, Wayfair and Amazon. In 2020, she changed direction and teamed up with the Spanish based creative platform Domestika to create 4 best selling online courses. Her first book on painting birds, published by Bloomsbury in 2024 was endorsed by collector Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and soon became a watercolour best seller on Amazon with an ever growing number of  5 star reviews.

 

Her passion for teaching is what drives her work. Her classes are warm, friendly, encouraging and above all, fun!

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Sarah says..."I get such a buzz from teaching; I love it when a student gets one of those light bulb moments and it means that they can move onto the next level of their artistic journey…to get people to believe in themselves and their ability is the best feeling ever.”