On the water
My friend and local boat skipper, Ffion called last week and said “Sarah do you need some ‘inspiration’?” Which is mutually understood to mean she...
‘Through takes less effort’ to feature at RSMA exhibition 2021
It was thrilling to find out in late August that my painting 'Through takes less effort' had been selected to feature in this year's RSMA...
Insight: Alive and kicking
The coast here is covered with colourful lichens that grow on the rocks above the waterline. They form in bands according to their respective salt...
Insight: The appetite for adventure
It was a joy making this painting! I was playing with the line between a representational 'view' and an abstraction of it; at the same time pushing...
Insight: A sense of summer
It can take a little courage to put down a big brushstroke and just leave it alone, but I found the combination of yellow and pink in the foreground...
Painting in progress: Precious time
Blocking in the base layer of another new painting... It’s always fun starting something new because there’s no pressure, it will mostly get covered...
Painting in progress: Skirting the overfalls
Off the coast here, there's a stretch of water that behaves very differently than the surrounding sea. Huge rolling waves are pushed up steeply and...
Painting in progress: The cleansing
Today’s work on progress is alternately making me happy and then frustrated and back again! It just goes like that sometimes, but it’s getting there...
New painting: Addicted
I’m a bit in love with a new tube of ‘Michael Harding’ Turquoise Oil Paint at the moment. I started experimenting on this little canvas and it just...
Hats and Barrels
Hats and Barrels | Oil On Canvas | 60 x 60 cm ? SOLD - Please take a look at my paintings page to see available work.Let me tell you the...
‘Warm Shower’ – Time Lapse
Below is a short Time-lapse video of a work in progress. This film, captured during multiple sessions over several weeks, shows the evolution of...
A hundred things you have not dreamed of…
' 'A hundred things you have not dreamed of' | Oil on canvas | 102 x 80 cm When the sky is blue and the clouds high, I'm reminded of my Dad who was...