Sarah Delanchy

Sarah Delanchy is a French illustrator and printmaking artist. She studied architecture for 5 years in Paris before moving to Dublin city to work as an architect.

In 2017 she won the ArchiGraphic Art contest in the category “Drawing for the project”, and in 2019 her work was commended by the jury of the Architecture Drawing Prize in the hand-drawn category with a map of Dublin. The map was then exhibited in London at Sir John Soane Museum and in Amsterdam for the World Architecture Festival.

Sarah’s work is very much influenced by her architecture studies. It depicts cities, landscapes, and architecture scenes. She first began creating highly detailed black and white drawings for her graduation project, using a Rotring pen, and hasn’t stopped since. Sarah’s illustration practice currently predominantly focuses on the creation of a series of city maps; “I love making people discover or rediscover a city through my hand drawn maps. I see grown up people turning into kids when they watch all the details of the map. There are also loads of memories and emotions coming out of it”. So far, she has drawn Chicago, Dublin, Montpellier, Lofoten Islands, and Hong Kong.

In 2019, Sarah left Dublin to settle in Montpellier, south of France, and during the pandemic she discovered linocut. She comments; “I enjoyed making Rotring pen drawings but I missed the craft, experimenting with colours, feeling the material so when I discovered linocut it was a true revelation. Carving is a meditating process and revealing the lino print when you peel the paper is always a magic moment.” She learnt the printmaking process entirely by herself, self-teaching through watching tutorials online and experimenting a lot.

In 2022, after 4 years working as an architect abroad and in France, Sarah decided to quit her job to work as full time illustrator and printmaking artist. “After a couple of years as an architect I had become quite unhappy with my job because it lacked creativity. Waking up in the morning to go to work had become very painful so I decided to quit and give my artwork a chance. That was the best decision I made,” she says. Today, Sarah works in her small atelier, splitting her time between Rotring pen illustration, linocut, and digital work. She has an online shop and also works on commissions for private clients, architects, and developers.

Currently, Sarah is working on a giant map of Marseille, France. She has also just completed a two block reduction linocut of a sunset she saw in Marseille.“I want to keep experimenting linocut as I’m quite new to the discipline and work on larger format. I’m also trying new things with colors and practising the reduction and multi blocks lino,” concludes the printmaker. 

www.sarahdelanchy-illustration.com
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