Sarah Simblet (born 1972) is a graphic artist, writer and broadcaster, who teaches anatomical drawing at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and at the

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Early life and education

Sarah earned a doctorate in drawing at

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in 1998 on European art history and the social history of human dissection. She was awarded the Richard Ford Award travelling scholarship to Spain while an undergraduate at

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between 1991 and 1994, and spent three months working in

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from November 1994 to January 1995.

Career

Sarah started drawing at a very young age. Besides tutoring at Oxford, she is a guest lecturer at

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, teaching morphological anatomy and physiology from an art perspective to medical students. She also works with youth offenders at Feltham Prison and children in care in Oxfordshire. In addition, she works from a studio in Oxford. Besides taking part in group exhibitions, she has exhibited in one-artist shows such as "Sarah Simblet-Drawings" at the Pitville Gallery in

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(1999), "Theaters of the Body" at Chris Church Picture Gallery in Oxford (1998), and "Five New Drawings" at the Long Room, New College, Oxford (1993). She has written three books which were published by

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‘Anatomy for the Artist
and ttp://www.dk.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781405332279,00.html ‘Botany for the Artist Her drawings are to be found in national and private collections including the Royal Academy of Art in London, and the

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in Oxford. She is a regular contributor to

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radio and television programmes on natural history and art. In collaboration with Gabriel Hemery, she co-wrote "The New Sylva - a discourse of forest and orchard trees in the 21st century" published by

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in 2014 to mark the 350th anniversary of

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's work "

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". The 200 illustrations for this book necessitated lengthy trips to the native haunts of the trees and drawing them in situ or returning with specimens t
her studio
in

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Popular culture

The work of art by Leonardo Da Vinci titled '' La Bella Principessa'' was submitted to her for making a master copy in a PBS programme broadcast in 2012, in which Simblet appeared and was interviewed. Leonardo work of art was studied on the PBS program NOVA in 2012 in a programme titled “Mystery of a Masterpiece,” from NOVA/National Geographic/PBS, broadcast on 25 January 2012.

Books

Publisher, ‘Anatomy for the Artist. *

Publisher, ‘The Drawing Book’. *

Publisher, ‘Botany for the Artist. * Bloomsbury Publishers, Illustrated book, 'The New Syvla', 2016.

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