Sarah Walsh
84 // Sarah Walsh was born in Norwich, Connecticut, USA, and now lives in Kansas City. She received a BFA from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. Sarah is a designer with the Lilla Rogers Studio and also runs an Etsy shop called Petit Reve with her illustrator husband to sell her work. She is inspired by nature and animals, magical creatures, music, textiles, vintage children’s books, films, folk art and mid-century illustration and design. Clients have included Hallmark Cards, Oopsy Daisy, Usborne Publishing and Crayola. Her dream commission would be to design a fun and quirky bolt fabric collection or illustrations for Chronicle Books. Sarah plans to continue to build her brand of illustration and visual language. She feels like she is just getting started and the possibilities are endless! Hand lettering, fun and quirky surface design for all ages, character illustration, books, children’s products and home decor are just some of the avenues she would like to explore. Sarah would also like to collaborate with like-minded creative folks.
Design Heroes: Alexander Girard, Margaret Kilgallen, Mary Blair
Electric Savage
Sarah says she has always been influenced by seventeenth-century costumes and hairstyles, science fiction and the geometric nature of a lot of 1960s design and illustration. These elements came together to form Sarah’s ‘Geo-prism’ series.
Alpaca
Stylized geometrics give Sarah’s illustrations a magical fantasy look. This image, with its detailed geo-prism landscape, is contained in a stylish rounded square.
Cat Loaf City
Sarah is really passionate about our four-legged friends and finds them fun to draw because they all have their own personalities and habits. Their shapes, colours and proportions are different. Here each cat is adorned with a delicate stylized pattern.
Television Tiger
Geometry and illustration go hand in hand in this piece, where the tiger’s head takes on an angular form and his face is filled with rainbow stripes.