the artist

Sarah is a contemporary painter based in Brighton. Preferring to feel a part of the landscape, Sarah paints, draws, and sketches ‘en plein air’. She loves to be immersed in nature and connected to the environment around her.

Nurturing her relationship with a space by revisiting it in all seasons, she is then able to experience and observe the changes in light, colour, and sound. Her evocative, dreamlike paintings capture not just a sense of light and place, but her own experience within the space. They have an underlying emotional intensity and sense of nostalgia, as if these are places and skies which are familiar to us all.

the sound

Sarah says: “For me birdsong is inseparable from my practice - a gentle soundtrack as I sketch en plein air along the coast and across the Sussex Downs, where skylarks rise and sing each day. Back in the studio, it’s Vaughan Williams I often turns to - especially ‘The Lark Ascending’ - a piece that helps me stay grounded while my paintings find their shape.

‘Last Song’ depicts the quiet turning point at the end of the day - the beginning of a darkening sky, when the light starts to dip and the once-vivid birdsong begins to fade into stillness. It's a moment filled with both softness and gravity, when everything begins to hush.”

the artwork

This is an original oil painting on board, framed in a solid beech tray frame measuring 52.5 x 52.5 cm.

delivery

There is an additional packaging & postage charge of £30. The artwork is free to collect from our Walthamstow or Clapton galleries.