Australian House & Garden

Sarah Tracton

“Transitioning from fine art to design has been a learning curve. As an artist, you create instinctually; as a designer, you always have to have the end-user in mind.”

rowing up, I My earliest art memory was drawing an outback landscape. I was about five years old and I remember marvelling at the variety of iridescent colours in my pastel set. That fascination with material combinations stayed with me and led to my studies at the National Art School in Sydney.

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