Sarah Bourne Rafferty is an artist based in the Brandywine Valley, west of Philadelphia. It is the land that surrounds her that deeply inspires and creates a yearning to explore and appreciate. She tells the story of her surroundings by creating botanical compositions on paper using one of the earliest photographic processes called the cyanotype. She is the founder of Atwater Designs, a cyanotype design studio where she creates original cyanotypes, fine art prints and paper goods as well as wallpaper and textiles. Sarah is an educator, having spent 15 years in the traditional classroom and now teaches and mentors other artists worldwide, on-line. She finds working with students to be integral in her own process. Sarah's work has been shown and is the homes of her collectors worldwide.