The short story:

In early June 2019, Sarah Hui went over the handlebars of her mountain bike, landed on her head, and suffered a traumatic brain injury that changed her life forever. It took a year and a half to recover and like many people who go through traumatic events, it made her take a hard look at herself and at her life. Once a huge part of her life, ceramics took a backseat to other responsibilities. Art was rarely a part of this life and there was very little joy. She quit her corporate job and made the leap back into ceramics in earnest. Ceramics is now a part of her full time life again. She has rekindled that passion and joy through her pursuit of art and is now pursuing a dream she never thought she could realize. This is Truly Sarah!

The Longer story:

Sarah Hui has made White Salmon, WA her home for the last 14 years but has just recently started up Truly Sarah Ceramics. While the business is new Sarah has been working in clay since 2002. She got her BS in Art from the University of Oregon in Eugene, focusing in painting and ceramics. She had always enjoyed painting but discovered her first ceramics class in college. From that point on, she fell in love with clay and it has never stopped bringing her joy.

After her undergraduate degree Sarah continued on to get her Masters of Landscape Architecture but unfortunately finished that degree at the start of the recession. Instead of working as a Landscape Architect she took a job in Bingen, WA working as a technical illustrator for Insitu, a small (at that time) aerospace company that was shortly after purchased by Boeing. She worked as a technical illustrator for the next 11 years. There were many, many good things that came out of the time at Insitu and she is very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with some great people, but after 11 years it was time to move on.  There are influences in her work from her years as a technical  illustrator… some of the patterns you can see on her vessels may, or may not have been devised during some overly long staff meetings…