"Throughout her career Sarah has returned to her home county after painting in the wilds of Ireland, rockpools of Cornwall and calm urban lakes of Kew Gardens. ... (to the) intense study of the Oxfordshire tributaries and valleys of the River Thames. These intimately scaled paintings complement a body of work which includes monumental canvases of bold, abstract composition filling one’s field of vision..."
Winston Willow
Curiculum Vitae
1952 Born Oxford
1970–71 VSO Kenya
1971–74 Sheffield University
1975–76 Hornsey College of Art
1976–79 Central School of Art and Design
1978 Phoebe Llewellyn Smith Prize
1979–81 Slade School of Fine Art (MA)
1981 Boise Travelling Scholarship
1981–82 Junior Fellow, Cardiff College of Art (SGIHE)
1982 Visiting Lecturer, Birmingham Polytechnic
1983 Visiting Lecturer, Central School of Art and Design
1985–89 Artist-in-Residence, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
1987 Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art
1988 Visiting Lecturer, Cardiff College of Art, Portsmouth Polytechnic
1990,’91,’92 Artist-in-Residence, Kvitavatn Arts Festival, Norway
1991– 2023 Teaching at Sunningwell School of Art and OCC Community Education
1992 Commission for The Caring Arts, Bradford at St Luke’s Hospital
2001,05,09 ‘Art in Situ’ European Artists residencies, France
EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1980 Young Contemporaries, ICA London ‘London University, lnstitute of Education (solo show)
1982 The Gallery, Cardiff College of Art
1983 Woodlands Gallery, Blackheath, London SE3
1986 Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford, Middx (solo show)
1988 ‘Kew, the British Garden’, CCA Galleries, London
1988 ‘Artist of the Day’, Angela Flowers Gallery, London (solo show)
1998 Wolfson College, Oxford (solo show)
1992 Luxters Fine Art, Henley
1993 The Henley Exhibition Centre
1994 ‘Small is Beautiful’, Flowers East
1995 Summer Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary
1995 The Picture Gallery, Christ Church, Oxford (solo show)
1997 Chichester Open New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
1998 Beardsmore Gallery, London
1999 The Hunting Art Prizes, RCA and Victoria Gallery, Bath
1999 Chichester Open
2000 The Hunting Art Prizes, RCA
2001 The Hunting Art Prizes, RCA
2001 Merriscourt Gallery
2002 The Hunting Art Prizes, RCA
2003, 2005 ‘Art in Situ’, France Atelier Koch, France
2006 RA Summer Exhibition
2006 Art in Situ, France
2006 Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2009 Art in Situ, France
2012 River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, (solo show)
2012 “D’Ifinis Paysages” Exhibition of “Aquarium”, an association of European Artists at Zundorf Wehrtum Museum, Cologne, Germany 3 June – 1 July www.aquariumcompagnie.blogspot.com
2014 Radley College, Oxford 3 – 17 October
2024 Open Studio - Oxford Artweeks
COLLECTIONS
Paintings in Hospitals; University College, London; Wolfson College, Oxford; Warneford Hospital, Oxford; Maison des Ramieres, France;
Private collections in Europe, USA, Japan
