Collection: Sara Park

Sara Park was born in Kirkcaldy in April 1940. In 1970 she settled in Newcastle upon Tyne and in 1978 attained a BA in Social Sciences, working as a probation officer until 1982. In 1981 she began the first of many long and extensive travels: journeys that would take her as far afield as Nepal, India, Thailand and Sri Lanka. But it was with South America that she truly became enchanted. A place she returned to and worked in again and again; a place that undoubtedly fed and nourished her sense of adventure, and her feel for colour and language. Sara died after a brief illness in September 2010.