artist statement
Geology and Geomorphology were my subjects. For the love of rocks, drawing and maps, I had intended to further my degree and study Cartography. Instead, I chanced a fast career at Liberty of London , bathed in values of hand craftsmanship, natural form and art for all. Thereafter, lifestyle businesses enabled me to flex to the needs of four generations. Adaptability, resilience, nurture, care , craft and the great outdoors drove my creativity inexorably to a fine art practice that makes sense of life through encounters with nature.
I find solace in the wild places, sustaining joy from not only the wide horizon but the minutiae around me and beneath my feet. I walk, garden and boat on the water. I may collect, photograph , scribble or draw but always align my thoughts with belief in interconnectedness in all living and mineral things. I’m interested in natural chaos and the scientific processes that drive towards pattern and order. I put trust in my understanding of landscape to direct painterly gesture and mark making . In my mind it’s a process of facing universal dualities , making choices, taking chances and responding to consequences. The understory is random, layered and interwoven , at once intricate, fragmented and complicated . Then comes a desire to pare down and to simplify, to tenderly convey something of the perfectly imperfect in nature.
I work in a home studio, previously in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, now on the Lizard Peninsula, West Cornwall.
I paint small and larger works on paper, canvas, linen and board. Ceramics and textiles are a diversion and add another dimension.
I like natural materials, often site specific and gathered. Graphite, charcoal, raw pigments, watercolour, traditional gesso, egg tempera, oil.
artist bio
Sally’s fine art practice is a continuum, an exploration into fragility of life through landscape. She believes in interconnectedness in all nature and informs herself with the science.
Painter, ceramicist and textile artist, she has a distinct visual language characterised by texture and light. Immersed in process and in echo to forces and cycles, she interweaves and layers painterly gesture, mark and line to create imagery that resonates with real and imagined landscapes. She conveys an aura of calm over chaos .
Recently moved from Oxfordshire, Sally works from her home studio on The Lizard , West Cornwall.
She exhibits regularly and has gallery representation.
Self taught, she gained accreditation with work selected by RWA, SWAc, RSMA and Discerning Eye at The Mall Galleries.
Oxford Art Society member.
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