Based in the stunning landscape of the Yorkshire Dales Sarah Smith is a sculptor who works mainly in stone and clay.  Born in 1965 in Yorkshire, Sarah studied figurative art for many years including full-time study at The Elizabeth Frink School of Figurative Sculpture and a year of stone carving in Pietrasanta, Italy.  Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the UK, including The Orangery and The Oxo Tower in London, The Glasgow Art Fair and The Bruton Gallery.  Sarah's sculptures are held in various private collections as well as in commercial offices.  

Her return to live in North Yorkshire full-time over 5 years ago has seen a stronger influence of the natural landscape emerge in her work. This has led to extensive new work being commissioned for gardens and woodland, these include Brewsholme Hall in Lancashire and Queen Margaret's School in York.  Sarah has also exhibited throughout Yorkshire on the Duke of Devonshire's Bolton Abbey Estate, Newby Hall and The Lund Gallery.  In 2010 Sarah was asked to participate at "Onform" in the grounds of Asthall Manor near Oxford, this bi-annual exhibition is the only one dedicated to stone sculpture and has won much critical acclaim.

Since 2008 Sarah has been artist-in-residence at the Samadhi Centre, a healing and meditation retreat in the hills surrounding Kandy, Sri Lanka.  For three years Sarah spent several weeks each year travelling the area finding different stones for her sculptures - more often granite but also using dolomite limestone (usually crushed and used as a fertiliser for tea plants).  This culminated in a solo exhibition in December 2010 in Galle as well as several large scale sculpture commissions for gardens.

Sarah has also been commissioned for portraits by a number of private individuals and her portrait work includes in 2005 Fred Trueman, the Yorkshire Cricketer (1931-2006) and Mary Spencer-Watson, the sculptor (1913-2006).  Roger Moss OBE ex-finance director of Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation and British Airways and most recently Diana Athill OBE (born December 21, 1917) British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the most important writers of the 20th century.