Saaraliisa has been working in the field of fiber for over 45 years. As her husband was in the Foreign Service, they lived in Costa Rica, Japan, Peru and South Africa. While in Kyoto for five years, she fell in love with washi (handmade paper) and studied with a master papermaker. Since that time, her art work uses Japanese handmade paper as well as her own. She has shown nationally and internationally: these include Zimbabwe, Chile, Venezuela, Norway, Lithuania, Slovenia, Hungary, Australia, Peru, Costa Rica, South Africa, Japan, Korea, the United States and Canada.

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