Growing up with an inherent talent for art in Hitchin, Sarah Graham studied a BTEC National Diploma in Art & Design at North Herts College also in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1996, before moving on to take on a Bachelor of Arts Degree at De Montford University in Leicester. After graduating from the university in 2000, Graham found herself being rejected frequently from most galleries but was still able to successfully debut with her works at the Degree Show at De Montford University as well as at Hogshead Gallery in Leicester in a variety of shows. Following this she exhibited a year later at the Affordable Art Fair in London, in the Summer Show 'The Jelly' and in Leg'd Arts Gallery in Reading. Sadly due to the slow business she was forced to tap up a job for nine months as a stock room advisor in a local shop. Moving some time later to Reading, she and a friend began using some rooms above a pub as a studio until the brewery owning the rooms gave them a notice of eviction from the premises, taking a last chance she strode across town with her work asking the gallery 'the Jelly Leg'd Chicken' to store it for her. Amazingly they not only stored it but they exhibited it for her and in only a week sold it for £1000. Shortly afterwards she was offered a part time job in the gallery as well as her own studio, provided she look after a nearby florist business until it relocated. In 2004 disaster struck in as Graham's father passed away due to cancer and suddenly her world fell into turmoil, moving back to Hitchin and using her bedroom as a studio. For four years she lived with this arrangement until in an act of desperation she texted everyone in her phone and was directed to a converted barn just outside of the town. Taking a giant gamble she took on the barn and converted it further into her studio. After producing a plethora of artwork the leading Fine Art publisher Washington Green noticed her and signed a contract with her to publish her works. Feeling lonesome in the countryside she purchased a small place in Hitchin Town Center where she practices her artwork and photography, as well as working with her husband who additionally has his own office.

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