Sarah is a landscape painter working from her home studio in Stamford, Lincolnshire. She is inspired by rural landscapes, town allotments and gardens and makes colourful, uplifting paintings in acrylic and mixed media. Her work has been shown at the Mall Galleries in London with the New English Art Club, the Society of Women Artists, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Sarah also exhibits paintings in a number of UK contemporary galleries. She is a member of Welland Valley Art Society and the Leicester Society of Artists. Sarah regularly shows her work at Stamford Arts Centre and opens her studio to visitors by appointment. She also teaches occasional workshops/demonstrations.
Sarah’s landscape paintings are not a literal interpretation of a view but rather an expression of her experience being in a location. She aims to evoke a sense of place which she hopes will find a connection with the viewer. She paints almost always in ‘mixed media’, which is often a combination of acrylic paints, pencil, charcoal, water soluble crayons and oil pastel. She enjoys using expressive brushstrokes, scratches and drawn lines and has a real passion for colour. She is particularly interested in how colour has an emotional impact on the viewer, and she uses simplified shapes and planes of colour to add intrigue and an abstracted quality which invites a closer look.
