About
Minty Sainsbury is a London-based artist best known for her highly detailed and instantly recognisable stylised architectural pencil drawings.
Currently, Minty is exploring a series of cropped architectural drawings, which she describes as “visual haikus.” These works focus on fragments - architectural jewels - revealing the hidden harmony and beauty in their composition. This ongoing project reflects her fascination with architectural history and invites viewers to find poetry in the overlooked details of our built environment.
Her work has been selected for the prestigious Royal Academy Summer Exhibition two years running, with Practise in 2024 and a new drawing Fragment of the Qutb Minar in Delhi featured in 2025.
She has curated five successful solo exhibitions: one in Glasgow in partnership with the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, and four in central London. She has also shown in group exhibitions across the UK, Paris, and New York. She has been shortlisted or awarded by the Hermès International Scarf Design Competition, The Architecture Drawing Prize, the Traditional Architecture Group, The Pastel Society, and the RIBA Journal’s Eye Line drawing competition.
Minty works with art consultants and interior designers on both large-scale projects and bespoke private commissions. Her drawings are held in collections worldwide, from Beijing to Miami, and feature in notable spaces including Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland.
In 2024, she completed an artist residency in India with the Prakriti Foundation.
She recently took part in a conversation series hosted by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, discussing her practice and the evolving role of drawing in architectural storytelling.
With over 200,000 followers across her social platforms, Minty’s work has also appeared in The Times, Wallpaper magazine, and publications by Hermès. She has collaborated on creative campaigns with Airbnb, Microsoft, Faber-Castell, and Winsor & Newton.
She studied Architecture at the University of Cambridge as a scholar of Emmanuel College, graduating with first-class honours and a RIBA student award, having achieved the highest marks in her year. She worked at Carmody Groarke before becoming a full-time artist.
Born 1991, Scotland.
