Born in San Francisco, Sally was raised in the farmlands of Northern California. Running through apple orchards, picking wild flowers and riding horses, she cultivated a strong connection with nature and an intense desire for adventure and discovery. Thorougly inspired after travels to Europe and a summer in her homeland of Ireland, she began seriously drawing and painting in the UC Santa Cruz Art Department. Soon, an old Nikon F2 landed in her hands and her love for photography was born. After graduation she moved to Los Angeles hoping to work in the realm of music videos and films she had been so inspired by. She found herself working at Stan Winston Studios painting lizard monsters and alien pods for films such as War of the Worlds and Zathura. She soon moved into the digital vfx department to do compositing. Here she stayed until adventure beckoned, and she packed her bags for India. Living in a cave in the Himalayas, riding camels through the desert, getting stitches without anesthetic and an encounter with the Dalai Llama proved to be of the upmost inspiration. Unable to return to the daily grind of LA life and the Bush era, she continued her travels, living in Germany and then to Montreal, Canada. Here she continues to live, doing various creative endeavors including fire dancing, organic farming, Vjing, freelance VFX as well as working on her paintings and photography. She continues her quest to transform tragic into magic. She is inspired by mythology, shamanism, burning man, Jeanette Winterson, Tarsem Sing, the alleyways of Montreal, evolution, dinosaur fossils, kart wheeling, the Cosmic Serpent, the Planet Earth series, bicycles, circus, India, swing sets, Jan Saudek, Angkor Wat, Celtic art, the works of Daniel Quinn, and a whole lot of amazing art, music, trees, plants and creatures, both living and dead. A short review of her art «the C.S. Lewis of poetry, art- in 21st Century noir: nature vs.industry/man/corporealness; Sally’s ideas of human nature vs. human action are transfixing with its touch of surreal feminine beauty » Anne Murdoch