A Brisbane artist has been spreading happiness around the world through her work, coming full circle, returning to Griffith University to design campaign imagery for Creative Arts Open Day.
Specialising in intricate layered paper illustrations, Sarah Capon captures lively personality within her art, focusing on vibrant and idyllic scenes involving landscapes, people and animals.
Throughout her career she’s worked on various projects, including ‘Luminescent Longreach” for the Qantas Museum, where she was a visual development artist, illustrator and animator, even having her creations projected on a QANTAS Boeing 747.
Known online as @eyepicturedthis, she has accumulated more than 300,000 followers and millions of views across Instagram and TikTok by posting her work and process videos, giving viewers an insight to the stories behind her art.
Ms Capon has also recently had her debut picture book published, titled Grow Big, Little Seed – A story about rainbow babies, which was written by Bec Nanayakkara and published by Hardie Grant under their Bright Light collection.
The book has just been shortlisted for the 2025 New Illustrator Award by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) and is also a CBCA Notable Book for Picture Book of the Year 2025.
Growing up knowing she wanted to be an artist, Ms Capon wasn’t always aware of the career paths that would become available to her.
“I never felt like it was a realistic dream,” she said.
“Throughout high school I enjoyed art as a subject but wasn’t told there were options out there other than being a fine artist.
“Eventually, I found my way to product design at Griffith, where I had a lot of fun problem solving through design, but then discovered my real passion in communicating ideas and stories through illustration and animation.”
Now a full-time illustrator, Ms Capon said making the Creative Arts Open Day artwork felt like she’s come full circle.
“It has been several years since I graduated from Design at Griffith University, and looking back, one of the best parts of studying at an arts campus was being around all the other creative people who were just as passionate about their art form as I was,” she said.
“Being surrounded by that kind of energy while learning, collaborating and working on projects together, it was such a huge part of my experience, so I wanted to capture that feeling and help inspire the next wave of creative people coming through Griffith.
“I’ve had so much fun making these four artsy students and their accompanying creative chaos.”
