Having returned to university as a mature student with a concentration on Fine Art, Sally Muir gained a First Class Honours degree from Bath School of Art and Design (2003). Once described as ‘a prodigious painter of dogs’, Sally’s other subjects include human portraits and landscapes, as well as the occasional rodent and bird. For many years, Sally focused on her knitwear business Muir & Osborne as both a designer and author.
Sally has been the recipient of many prizes including: Jacksons Art Prize Planographic Prize Winner (2025), John Ruskin Prize finalist (2023), and Derwent Drawing Prize finalist (2020).
Sally's pictures have often been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, most recently in 2026.
'Muir’s dog portraiture demonstrates the artist’s technical range and her keen understanding of essential doggishness. Muir’s mastery of the expressive capacity of the canine eye in particular makes these paintings live and pant.'
Claudia Massey, Spectator