SARA WOODBURN

Color and pattern have inspired Sara, beginning with her study of Japanese printed textiles and later the woodcut printmakers of New Mexico and California.  Her chosen medium is woodcut with compositions that layer forms and textures from the natural world.  Practicing mokuhanga, Japanese woodblock printmaking, connects her to a long tradition of art that observes nature and preserves many hand processes including paper making, brush making and tool making.

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Born in Long Beach, California, Sara studied textile, graphic and costume design at UC Davis and later, yuzen, a kimono dyeing process in Tokyo, Japan.  She started a hand dyed textile and one-of-a-kind business in the San Francisco Bay Area and later moved it to Santa Fe, New Mexico where she was a frequent Artist-in-Residence.

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Sara has been making woodcut prints since 2010 in Santa Barbara.  In 2012 and 2016, she was awarded scholarships to attend the prestigious Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado to study mokuhanga with master printmaker, Hiroki Morinoue and reduction woodcut with Jean Gumpper.

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Sara gives workshops in mokuhanga at her studio and her work has been featured at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara, the Marcia Burtt Gallery, Sullivan Goss, the Wilding Museum of Art and the Elverhoj Museum.  She is a member of the California Society of Printmakers, the Santa Barbara Printmakers and the Santa Barbara Mesa Artists.