Sarah Rae Draws

Illustrator & Visual Artist // Isle of Wight

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Lucky (2026)

Digital Drawing and Collage

This experimentation with composition is inspired by graphic novels. Boxes feel the perfect container for snapshots of memories. When you remember the past do you remember it in whole pictures, or specific details? Sometimes it feels like bits of your memories are just out of view.

Illustration inspired by the sound of Lucky by Tyzo Bloom and Freak Slug

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Favourite for a Long Time (2026)

Digital Drawing and Collage

I used to live next to some huge pylons until last year. I love looking up at them, all those straight lines and cables, it’s like someone has drawn it with a ruler and sharpie.

I spent a lot of time walking with headphones on, listening to new music and going over things over in my head. There were a few pylons along that walk all connected to one another through the fields. Sometimes I had the urge to climb them.

I'm experimenting with composition at the moment. Combining text and sequential illustration almost like a graphic novel. There is a narrative and emotion to it. I particularly like the hand extending out of the confines of the frame. The cables stretching across the image.

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The Present Over and Gone (2026)

Photography, Digital Drawing and Risograph Print

A new piece to come out of my Riso Residency at Boojum & Snark.

I have these photos of my Nan on a family holiday from when she was younger, my uncle is the little boy behind her in the second photo.

I knew that her red bikini would be perfect for the Riso, it really pops. Sometimes when you layer colours for the print (I went Yellow, Blue, Red then Black) it doesn’t perfectly line up, which I think is what makes Risograph so interesting as a medium. Her face is a bit blurry in the first image, but I like it. Almost as if it’s captured the movement as she’s laughing and shaking out her wet hair. Although I wasn’t alive at this time and I didn’t know my Nan until she was a fair bit older, I feel as if these photos capture my memories of her so well.

Silly, fun and playful. She used to skip in the garden with Granddad, they shared a jump rope. She’d balance on her hands in a frog pose and hold it far longer than me. She always spoke to her stuffed animals as if they were alive.

She told me when she was evacuated during the war she went to Dawlish with her Mum, a seaside town that was very different from where she grew up in Essex. She has fond memories and would visit there later in life. She used to line up snails on the garden wall and pretend to be their English teacher. She loves animals, especially cats.

She gets confused now, the past and the present merges together for her. But, I guess, time is a pretty funny thing for all of us to hold in our brain.

Inspired also by Heaven by The Blaze.

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DIY Art Residency Diary #011 28.5.26

I’ve been exploring the theme of birds, freedom, space, time and memory. I also wanted to try out some Risograph Textures I downloaded from Retro Supply Co. I’m so stoked by the outcome!

Mixed media collage with hand drawn elements.

I thought telephone wires were fitting imagery, representing connection and urbanisation. We’re all connected by the network of wires above our heads. Birds congregate on top of wooden poles that used to be trees.

I wanted it to feel like you’re standing looking up at the sky. The telephone poles are a reminder of the place you’re attached to but the birds signal freedom and possibility.

I finished the piece listening to this dreamy ethereal song Faultline by Girlpool.

Every week is slipping by in this imitation paradise.

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Island Women Wondering Why Zine

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The Herons (2025)

Digital Drawing

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Joe Carstairs and Julia Margaret Cameron A6 Prints

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[FATIGUE] Zine

A3 Risograph Print Folded into a Zine a restless spirit we're inundated with sensation sometimes it is too much we are more than this

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Crooked Teeth (2025)

Digital Drawing

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Where’s My Mind? (2025)

Digital Drawing

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You’ll Know Where To Find Me (2025)

Digital Drawing and Mixed Media

Fine pencil-like marks build a sense of softness and vulnerability. A work about yearning and the courage of leaving a door open for someone.

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It’s Funny That I Think Of You (2025)

Digital Drawing and Mixed Media

Drawn in loose graphite-inspired strokes on a soft grid background, the figure’s profile suggests distance while the handwritten text hints at the intimacy of unfinished conversations. The piece explores longing, nostalgia, and the ways someone can stay present in our thoughts long after they’ve gone.

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You Could Eat Me Alive (2025)

Digital Drawing

Rendered with expressive graphite-texture strokes over an empty grid field, the piece balances vulnerability and strength, a moment suspended between staying and taking flight.

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Time Passing Fast (2024)

Digital Drawing and Collage

Time Passing Fast reflects on motherhood, memory, and the fleeting nature of the present. Combining ballpoint-style drawing with collage and text, the work captures an intimate moment between mother and child. The motif of the dove and the flowing lines of sky and sea evoke both peace and transience. The handwritten phrase, “I see the past, time passing fast, the present over and gone,” serves as both lullaby and lament, a meditation on how every act of care is already becoming memory.

Part of the Soft Archives Series Soft Archives is a visual diary exploring memory, tenderness, and the quiet weight of emotional recall. Blending hand-drawn portraiture, digital collage, and found ephemera, the series unfolds like pages from a personal sketchbook.

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Martha (2024)

Digital Drawing and Collage, from the Island Women Wondering Why series

A portrait of Martha, a young skateboarder from the Isle of Wight who was invited to try out for Team GB. At nine years old, she suffered a spiral fracture in her leg after a skating accident — but her determination never faltered. After months of recovery, she learned to skate again from the beginning, rebuilding confidence and strength one push at a time.

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What the Light Remembers (2025)

35mm Film Photography — Light Leaks & Partial Exposures

What the Light Remembers explores the fragile nature of memory and the way it fades, distorts, or burns away over time. Each photograph on this roll of 35mm film was partially lost to light, leaving behind ghostly traces of places, people, and moments half-remembered. The intrusion of brightness becomes an act of erasure and preservation at once, the film holding on to what it can, even as the details dissolve. This series reflects on how memory lingers: not in clarity, but in fragments of warmth, colour, and light.