About Sarnia de la Mare FRSA
Artist. Composer. Storyteller. Disruptor.
Sarnia de la Mare FRSA is a boundary-defying multimedia artist, author, and composer with a twenty-year history of interdisciplinary creation. Known for weaving the visceral with the cerebral, the mythic with the mechanical, Sarnia invites audiences into immersive, often hauntingly beautiful worlds that balance precision with wild intuition.
From oil-painted wastelands to digital operettas, Sarnia’s work resists categorisation. Every piece—whether an artwork, a piece of music, or an experimental book—asks to be felt before it is understood. A lifelong rebel against uniformity and dullness, Sarnia’s oeuvre brims with curiosity, vulnerability, and unapologetic intelligence.
A Career Built on Immersion
Sarnia began their journey in the arts as a classical musician, studying the cello and viola with fierce dedication. This grounding in musical form evolved into composition and sound design, with projects spanning chamber works, ambient landscapes, and concept albums under the Tale Teller Club imprint.
Visual art followed—first on canvas, then through street installations, digital galleries, and collaborative couture. Sarnia is also the creative force behind Blink Friction, a punk-glam upcycling label turning salvaged fashion into wearable art, sold worldwide and shown in Brighton Arts Club’s subversive showcases.
The culmination of this polymath spirit is The Book of Immersion—a transmedia epic blending narrative fiction, original music, and symbolic imagery to explore what it means to feel, to transform, and to belong. At its heart is Renyke, an autistic AI on a quest to become fully human—a meditation on emotion, neurodiversity, and the liminal states between machine and man, queerness and becoming.
Recognition & Radical Teaching
Sarnia is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, recognised for contributions to arts education and radical storytelling. Their teaching is rooted in dismantling gatekeeping in the arts. In 2024, they founded the Sarnia de la Maré Academy of Arts—a pioneering online school where students of all ages explore music, digital art, classical instruments, and painting, often blending traditional craft with emerging technologies.
Their workshops and masterclasses emphasize embodiment, neurodiversity, and creative freedom, encouraging each participant to trust their instinct and make bold, imperfect, world-changing work.
Collector, Performer, Archivist
As a collector of rare instruments, vintage prints, and ephemeral oddities, Sarnia treats history as both a palette and a provocation. Through ongoing work with Saatchi and a thriving portfolio shop, their visual archive continues to expand—bringing new life to forgotten materials and overlooked aesthetics.
Live performances, both musical and spoken, often punctuate their seasons—small, intense encounters with layered soundscapes, costumed characters, and unpredictable emotional turns.
Philosophy
"I’m not here to explain the world—I’m here to deepen its mystery."
Whether composing for future ghosts or stitching together anarchic ballgowns, Sarnia’s practice remains defiantly human. Their work insists that art should be immersive, personal, and slightly dangerous. In a world of noise, Sarnia offers signal.
Connect
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Artworks & prints: Available via Saatchi & eBay Portfolio
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Interactive projects: Tale Teller Club
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Online school: iServalan School of Music
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Social media: YouTube
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