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Biography
Sarah Watson’s passion is to paint the natural landscape, the wilder and more dramatic the better. Before the pandemic, she was pathological about only painting en plein air, being in her landscape; breathing it, living it, surrounded by it. However, during lockdown, she was forced to change her entire approach to landscape painting and work from photographs taken locally during the minimal allowed forays outside of the home. This resulted in an unexpected and incredibly exciting new way of working: it opened brand new seasons and palettes which had previously been closed to her. Photography also brought her new compositional angles to work from but above all she experienced a new found joy in capturing textural detail. Working in the warmth of her studio, she found she could labour over the painting, observe and replicate much more subtle and intricate changes in colour and texture. Her first trip away that drew solely on this technique was on the very edge of the landscape overlooking the sea in Cornwall, in bleak, freezing cold but beautiful February 2022.
This was then followed in 2023 with her Iceland series for her second solo exhibition at Gallery6 in Newark in October. She undertook this trip in Autumn 2022 where she discovered the magic of the south coast of Iceland, “the most alien, dramatic and astonishing landscape I have ever encountered.” In particular, she fell in love with the icebergs viewed up close from a boat on the Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon and the neighbouring black sands and glittering giant chunks of ice on Diamond Beach.
Her latest muse is the wild beauty of Snowdonia which she explored in February this year.
The resulting paintings are large oils on canvas, lushly textured with brooding skies and jewel-like colours. The paint is initially applied with brushes which are soon inevitably exchanged for her bare hands, so that you can follow finger trails as they run across the landscape. Trees are scratched in with her fingernails, or with lethal looking pottery tools for tiny detail. These paintings are now on the road with London gallery Fine Art Consultancy who will be showing them for the first time on the art fair circuit.
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Sarah has exhibited in four one woman shows across the UK, and is represented by Gallery 6 in Newark and Fine Art Consultancy in London.
She featured on the Sky Arts television show Landscape Artist Of The Year in 2016, and was accepted for membership of the exclusive Lincolnshire Artists’ Society in 2019.
Born in Oakham, Rutland, in 1972, Sarah graduated from De Montfort University with a First Class degree in Combined Arts in 1994, specializing in Abstract Painting.
After 15 years working in the music industry, she settled in Lincolnshire to devote her time entirely to painting.