painting & collage
studio – upstairs main building
Inspired by nature, Sally weaves together the organic shapes and often vibrant colours found in the countryside around her with the gentle control of representational subjects.
Drawn to an expressive approach, favouring gestural strokes and mark-making, Sally first lays down collage pieces (often taken from her sketchbook and painted plein air). She then creates a layer of colour and marks. Once dry, she adds hand-made stencilling and more intuitive marks to create a complex “ground”. When this ground is dry, embodying the energy, colour and line of the countryside, Sally creates a loose ‘taming’ of nature by “finding” her still lifes. Through use of a semi-transparency, she “ghosts out” the wildness of the earlier layers whilst retaining a hint of that natural energy – it is held momentarily at bay. At first glance one sees, for example, a vase of colourful blooms, on closer examination one sees nature’s vibrant marks, colour and energy.
Whilst creating collage papers Sally often works with semi-transparent materials such a tissue and teabag papers. She incorporates these into her ink and watercolour landscapes to create the texture of the fields, hedgerows and grasses.
Sally’s mixed media works are most often created in acrylics, both paints and inks, but she also loves watercolour. Sally’s increasing interest in collage work is reflected in both the use of collage in her mixed media work but also use of her own hand-printed papers for purely collaged works.
She has exhibited in several group shows in Norfolk and is an active member of both the Wymondham Art Society and the Norfolk & Norwich Art Circle.
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