SARAH HARRIS-RICHARDS

SARAH HARRIS-RICHARDS, Studio Assistant (2002-5) and Studio Manager (2005-12), has lived in South Wales for 40 years since she left Essex where she was born in 1978. Following secondary school in Abergavenny, she attended the University of Portsmouth where she received a BA Hons in Art, Design & Media specializing in Illustration. After graduating in 2001, she moved back to Wales where she joined the Scriptorium Team in 2002 as Scriptorium Assistant and several years later as Studio Manager.

During The Saint John’s Bible project, Sarah was privileged to not only work in the studio directly with Donald and the team for most of the production of the original Bible, but also to work closely with the team creating the Heritage Edition alongside Donald.

As Studio Assistant, Sarah prepared and ruled the majority of the vellum and took care of the Bible pages once they had been written and illuminated before they left for Minnesota. She would keep the studio organized, cure goose quills, help with research and keep in touch with the calligraphers and artists that worked from their own homes and send them the vellum pages for them to work on when they were ready.

Sarah enjoyed working in such a wonderfully creative environment on such an extraordinary project, learning ancient and modern skills and techniques and working with such inspirational and talented people.

Over two decades years later, Sarah still works part time in the Scriptorium with Donald and Mabel. She is studying botanical illustration and enjoys working in horticulture. She lives in the Welsh valleys with her husband Gareth and their two cats, Eric & Figaro.