Sara Holden graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 1995. For nine years she worked as manager of The Picture House, initially in St Mawes and then in Padstow. Moving on, she began to focus on her painting career, holding her first solo show in 2008. She lives in Gerrans on the Roseland peninsula. She says: 'My aim is to convey the natural rhythms of the local geography within swirls, to create a design that flows and gives the illusion of movement.'