About The Artist

My name is Bronia sawyer I was born in Leamington spa I went to trinity a great school at the time and I am very greatfull to have gone, when it was a no uniform school and we called the teachers by there first name. which I personal feel was wonderful it made us as pupils feel important and valued the school was encouraging and sportive I have dyslexia which is probably obvious with all the spelling mistakes on the website but I was given lots of support at trinity to help. It also had a great arts department and really encouraged creative students to push themselves It had a fantastic art teacher Sherry who I think still works at the school and Dave T who was quite a character and a great teacher.there was also a fantastic photography teacher Elle it had great resources and an overall great ethos

after my GCSE's I went to Warwickshire college where I studied a year GNVQ in art and design intermediate after which I studied a two year course in GNVQ art and design advanced our teacher was collin wright he was great and taught us how to use chainsaws for sculpture. These have been some of my favourite years as I had the chance to create without the stress of being a grown up and having to do grown up things like making a living at this time making was about making and not about making money.
I DO HOPE I ALWAYS MAKE FOR THE SAKE OF MAKING AND WHEN I SELL MY WORK ITS A BONUS

After a few years I went back to college where I recently did one year on a fine art degree and completed a 2 year HND in design and craft my teachears Michelle zara Emma and RoS, helped me to explore new mediums.

It is over the last 5 years I have become really interested in book sculpture and photography and this is where I'm at now

I never consciously decided I wanted to be an artist I just was. I have always been creative. My school report said, “ Bronia is a shy girl she struggles with her reading and writing but she has passion for anything creative”. I never questioned being an artist when I was young. We had a questionnaire in primary school at around the age of seven. One of the questions was, “what do you want to be when you’re a grown up?” Obviously I answered that I wanted to be an artist. As a seven-year old, with no bills to pay and no concept of how artist makes a living, I suppose being an artist was a great idea.
Now having realised that grown-ups need money, and understanding that it’s hard to make a living from art when you lack business skills, strangely I still want to be an artist, and I don’t want to do anything else.
My thoughts change from day to day. Some days I think, “What the hell am I doing? Will anyone get this? What’s the point in this? Is it worth it?”
Other days I feel positive that what I’m doing is important? It’s not just aesthetic, although that is important in itself, but it’s more than just visual. I use art to explore the world around me and, although I don’t feel I need to shock people with my art, and I am not necessarily trying to prove a point or change the world, I am exploring it, and my work is a reflection of my thoughts and feelings.
For me creativity and imagination go hand in hand. My imagination has always been vivid, it has been throughout my life a blessing and a curse.
As a child it fed my nightly anxiety, creating faces in the shadows and monsters under the bed, but in the light it fed my daydreams driving me to create worlds in which I felt safe.
In this way art gave me control in a world I found confusing, and helped me through into adulthood, to explore emotions and understand new experiences.
My Dyslexia was picked up around age seven or eight, and I worked hard on my reading and writing skills, but my art was always my priority, and looking back, I see the two are very much related; my struggles with the written word drove me to express myself through art instead.
Although academically I always felt I struggled, it was never something negative to me, as I knew the way I thought about the world was important, and as long as I could find a way to express it, I had worth.
Art gives my life value it makes me feel noticed and has become part of who I am.
I work a lot with text now. Over the years I have reconnected with words, and realized the magic of reading and writing; they are just another way of expressing the imagination and knowledge.
Through my book sculptures I combine my old weaknesses with words with my artistic strength, and in doing so, I have found that, instead of fearing reading and writing, I have grown to love words. I see that they are beautiful; they are powerful, and can be used like colour in a painting to stir the imagination and communicate the magic inside everybody. I am in love with fairy tales I am in awe of stories such as Alice in wonderland the 12 dancing princesses, snow white and Cinderella magical worlds that feed the imagination.
We all have a need to communicate, and I enjoy combining as many tools as possible to do so.