Sarah Drummond studied art history in Paris and later at the Courtauld Institute, SOAS and Birkbeck College. Her professional career was in journalism, specialising initially in education and subsequently as features writer for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers in the UK and the USA. She has travelled widely (acting as travel guide in Peru, France and Spain) and visited museums, galleries, churches and monasteries to see works of art, and where possible in their original settings. Her interest in sacred art goes back to her childhood.

