Sarah Young Tea Towels that are comfy on a sofa and much more !

Sarah Young started life with a mother who was a fashion designer during the 1950s, and a father who was a sculptor and art teacher at the Reigate School of Art and Design. Her own career began (after a degree in illustration at the College of Art in Brighton), as a very small travelling puppet theatre. In the winter months she printed linocuts with the back of a wooden spoon and made all sorts of things out of papier mache. Now she mostly prints, paints, illustrates and creates, if she’s lucky … all at the same time !  She makes the most wonderful multi-purpose Tea Towels that I’ve ever come across. They can function as a Tea Towel (as one might expect) or you can cut the animal /person out, and make cushions, puppets or doorstops from them, how fab is that !!

There’s a beautiful style and colouration to them, like old familiar objects from your childhood. You can even get a Little Red Riding Hood or Hansel and Gretel Tea Towel.

Sarah has a lovely style when it comes to artwork too, these screen-prints almost have a Ravilious feel to them.

Beautiful woodcuts too.

Her illustrations for “Greek Myths” (Walker Books) have been widely acclaimed, and she has just finished the illustrations for Michael Morpurgo’s latest book ‘Running Wild’. Best known for her lino and wood cuts, she also works in screenprinting and has recently been developing new methods of working in monoprint and collagraph – printing collage blocks.

Sarah also works in Oil and many other media including papier mache.

By now you should have a measure of just how talented an artist Sarah is, that you’ll not be surprised to hear that she is also founder and director of Brighton Art Fair and MADE – Brighton’s Design and Craft Fair, heck… she even designs the fabulous posters ! Is there no end to this artist’s accomplishments !!

More of Sarah’s background history can be discovered over at Toovey’s blog

You can buy Sarah’s beautiful work for yourself here on her Etsy site, perhaps it’s even time to change your tea towels/ cushions : )