Sara Lee Roberts lives and works in London.
In 2025 Sara was awarded a three-month artist residency at Monet’s Gardens at Giverny which has inspired much of her recent work.
In 2024 she was awarded a five-month residency at the Royal Collection Trust for the duration of their Drawing The Renaissance exhibition at the Kings Gallery. Sara’s abstracted drawn responses to the works in the exhibition were displayed as part of the exhibition.
In 2020 her book Painting and Reinterpreting the Masters was published. This reflected her interest in developing a practice which combines references to past art with abstracted responses to the landscape.
Sara has exhibited widely. In 2019 her work was shown at the Rijksmuseum in an exhibition to commemorate 250th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death.
Selected recent solo exhibitions include Myth and Memory in 2021 at Tregony Contemporary in Cornwall and Presence in Paint at North House Gallery in 2017.
Recent group exhibitions include Drawn Together at the Royal Drawing School in 2025.
Twelve large landscapes were commissioned for the Peninsula Hotel in London in 2022. In 2025 two large reinterpretations from Watteau were bought by the Chancery Rosewood Hotel in London and are on permanent display in the public rooms.
Sara’s paintings are held in many collections including Jesus College, Cambridge, the Unilever Collection, Charterhouse Securities, The National Open Art Collection, the Dumfries House Collection.
Prizes - The Charterhouse Securities Chairmans Prize at the Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London in 1999, the Drawings in Hospitals Prize at the Drawing Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School in 2008.
Sara Lee Robers is currently a senior and alumni tutor at the Royal Drawing School.
