Epiphany Art
Sarah Sharpe
Sarah Sharpe is a North Yorkshire artist with over twenty years of practice and is an elected member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Artists. Her Catholic faith and the lived experience of mothering shape a body of work exploring grief, presence and the enduring tenderness of Mary.
Mediums: Oil · Watercolour · Mixed media · Collage · Drawing
Themes: Pietà · Our Lady · The Passion · Motherhood · Stations of the Cross
Location: North Yorkshire, England
Available for all types of commissions
About Sarah
Sarah Sharpe has been a practising artist for over twenty years. After completing an HND in Fine Art in Sheffield, she developed a printmaking and painting practice that has deepened steadily since. While her early work wasn't explicitly faith-informed, her practice is now shaped mostly by her Catholic faith and a contemplative approach to image-making.
Caring for her now adult, brain-injured child has shaped her work profoundly, drawing her into an attentiveness to patience, presence and grace in fragile places.
Sarah is a member of the Society of Catholic Artists, an elected member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Artists, and of Leeds Fine Artists. A recent body of work — fifteen Stations of the Cross — was exhibited at Ampleforth Abbey during Holy Week 2026.
In their own words
"My practice is rooted in my Catholic faith and in the lived experience of mothering, especially caring for my now adult, brain-injured child. I work on paper and small wooden panels, using oil and mixed media to explore presence, relationship and attentiveness.
"The written word, music, nature, silence and imagination continually draw me into making. Relationship — both earthly and divine — lies at the heart of my work.
"I am a member of the Society of Catholic Artists and an elected member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Artists and Leeds Fine Artists."
Faith and the creative act
For Sarah Sharpe, faith teaches her to slow down, to attend, and to recognise grace in ordinary and fragile places. Caring for her brain-injured child has deepened this way of seeing. It draws her into patience and presence, into a recurring meditation on Mary: the mother who grieves, who holds, who watches.
Her work is rooted in Christian tradition but contemporary in form: she uses paper, paint and wood to explore how relationship, stillness and the presence of Christ might be encountered now, in the midst of ordinary suffering and ordinary love.
Selected works
