Lady Sarah Chatto has announced a major new project with links to one of Princess Eugenie‘s charities. In what is thought to be a welcome distraction from the latest bombshell involving Sarah, Duchess of York’s email to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Lady Sarah has been named as one of the 70 artists taking part in the Horatio’s Garden Online Art Auction this year.
The royal, who is Princess Margaret’s only daughter, shares Princess Eugenie‘s passion for the arts and is an artist herself, like her son, Samuel Chatto. The auction, which will run from Thursday, October 9 – Sunday October 26, will see artists like Lady Sarah, Quentin Blake, Sophie Ryder, Mark Coreth, Nic Fiddian-Green, Lucy Kent, Alastair Barford and Jemma Powell donate their works to raise funds so the charity can carry on building accessible gardens for people with life-changing spinal injuries.
Lady Sarah, who uses her maiden name, Sarah Armstrong-Jones, for her professional life, said: “Art is such an important creative focus in Horatio’s Gardens for patients with spinal injuries. I am really delighted to be able to help the charity to raise vital funds for people facing life-changing injuries.”
The royal is being represented by the Redfern Gallery, which she has worked since 1995. Her works have been described as “growing like plants flowering, or landscapes excavated over time from remembered, indistinct horizons. Her work takes us into a profound contemplation of the world she seeks to know and the method she has mastered.”
Lady Sarah was educated at Camberwell School of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools. She won the Winsor & Newton Prize in 1988, and the Creswick Landscape Prize in 1990. Her eldest son, Samuel, 29, is also passionate about the arts, as he is a scultor himself with a pottery studio in West Sussex.
The young royal, who is 29th in line to the throne, was born on July 28, 1996, and studied at Eton before enrolling at the University of Edinburgh to study History of Art in 2018.
Lady Sarah’s latest project will undoubtely make Princess Eugenie thrilled, as she has been the royal patron of Horatio’s Garden since 2019.
She has previously said about the charity: “Since learning about this charity back in 2016, I have fallen in love with their mission to bring joy to people and help their recovery.
“As a former spinal patient myself, I understand how the chance to get outside is so beneficial not only for recovery, but for staying positive at a life-changing, and often traumatic, time.”