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Matinee: 'Sarah Arnett's Creative World'
11 January 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 586th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Sarah Arnett's Creative World.
File this two-minute video about designer Sarah Arnett under Cross Training. She's not a photographer but what she says in this clip about developing her ideas and those of her clients is not to be missed. Especially as we start a new year.
"My art is modern, elegant and bursting with color. I want stories to leap from your wall and envelope you in a sense of fantasy and escapism," she says of her approach on her Web site.
She was raised in Zimbabwe before moving to England to study at the University of Brighton where she graduated with a degree in woven textiles. She moved to India where she lived in the textile quarter of Bangalore and managed a silk weaving and garment factory.
Her design career began when she return to England to design textiles for various clients before opening her own shop back in Brighton on the south coast. And she has been wildly successful every since.
But in this video, made in collaboration with Adobe to show off the Creative Suite, she shows you around her house, which is "a little Wonderland." One she created digitally.
She shows one large signature work she turns into upholstery, tea cups, robes and more. "I've been able to use everything in lots of different ways," she says.
We particularly applauded her last remarks in which she talks about being asked to do one thing for a client and having the knowledge "to suggest something they hadn't thought of."
That, as she says, is what being creative is all about.