Atwater Designs

I’m so happy this piece: The Wild Garden no. 13 was accepted into the Annual Juried Show and was awarded the Leon Andrus Honorable Mention. I’m very happy to have been so warmly welcomed by the community at Adkins! Thank you!!

The 2026 Workshop Schedule is live! Many opportunities to learn the art of the cyanotype this summer (and receive a copy of my book with the exception of the first one because the book will not be released until May 28.) Basics, Advanced, Fabric and a Retreat! Share with friends...and join me this summer!

Workshops | Cyanotype Art Workshops in West Chester, PA Join me for a hands-on learning experience with in-person cyanotype art workshops in West Chester, PA.

Thank you - a beautiful write up about my work from my residency last year.

“If cyanotype once served to stabilise the world, its contemporary use often begins by unsettling habitual ways of seeing. Sarah Rafferty’s series Looking Up emerges from a literal and conceptual shift in attention. During a residency, she found herself disengaged, looking downward and registering little beyond a blur of leaves. A visit to an arboretum disrupted that orientation. Forced to look upward by towering evergreens, she encountered a new visual rhythm—patterns of light, scale, and structure that had previously gone unnoticed.
This change in perspective became a quiet methodology. Rafferty’s work does not impose narrative but asks viewers to consider how perception itself is shaped by posture, habit, and pace. Her images are less about trees as subjects than about the act of noticing—about what becomes visible when the body and gaze are reoriented.”