About Sara Pearch

I am Sara Pearch, whose first career as a professional working potter has inspired my second career as a professional florist. I am based in Somerset, and committed to creating a broad range of floral arrangements and displays all with natural elegance and meaning.

I have worked within the creative arts all my professional life. As a professional working potter, artist, and now a florist, with a passion for pots and flowers.

My training as a potter, studying studio ceramics, was inspired by a working holiday in Australia in my early 20’s. I loved the natural beauty of its many landscapes, flora and fauna; and a grounding love of the soil and nature. So when I returned home, it was to study studio ceramics at college and begin my creative journey as a potter.

 At Chesterfield College, Derbyshire, I found the joy of throwing with clay on the potters wheel, and in particular throwing open forms, such as bowls, jugs and vases. With a love of flowers from childhood, and my Father living amongst the sunflowers in France, I decided in my final year to use an oriental brush; to decorate free flowing and individual floral designs on my bowls, bringing together my passion for pots and flowers.

I extended my training as a potter, working as an apprentice in Japan under a Master Potter, living and working in a small village in the countryside, making a traditional ware of 500 years, called Sue Yaki. On my return, I set up my own pottery studio and shop in Somerset, Frome, exhibiting and selling my work in the UK and abroad.  The Royal Academy, in London commissioned me to make a special floral collection, to be sold alongside two exhibitions: Sisley in 1991 and Monet to Gauguin in 1994.

Simultaneously, I worked closely with Poole Pottery, as one of their 5 designers, using my own floral design for the ‘Pearch Collection', showing and teaching my oriental brush technique and floral design with two of their brush painters. The Pearch collection was sold worldwide.

During that period as a potter, I was asked and commissioned to do two books “Step by Step Art School Ceramics” and “Simply Pottery”

Finally, my journey of creativity has now brought me to grow flowers in my garden, to pick and arrange them for my clients. A life long passion of flowers and pots, brought together and completing the circle as Sara Pearch in my floristry business.

My floristry training started with Tallulah Rose Flower School in Bath, where I realised my love of arranging flowers in the bowl and vase. I decided to extended that training to a Master class of the bowl with Sarah Statham at Simply by Arrangement, she mentored me in many areas of my new floristry business.

Always with a desire to reach out in my learning with flowers, I completed a workshop training of Installations and large design with the Bath Flower School,

A lifelong intertwining passion of flowers and pots completing the circle as Sara pearch in my floristry business. I grow flowers in my garden to use in my arrangements and source additional flowers from local growers, where possible and specialist growers, and sometimes even foraged for a natural expression. I create arrangements in bowls and vases in three sizes to complement my client’s events/occasions including large-scale installations. My flower arrangements speak from the heart, through colour, texture, form and movement. I love to work seasonally, alongside nature and with as much care for the environment as I can give.