Paintings On Paper

Sarah uses a thick Saunders Waterford paper (300lb, 640gram), the quality of the support enables energetic gestural marks to be created through the application of paint as well as scratching through to brightly underpainted layers. Machine stitching is occassionally employed in the smaller paintings as a means to define the ploughed lines and field borders. The mechanical intervention of the sewing machine replicates the aesthetic impact of machine farmed land with perfectly ploughed fields. These paintings have all been created in response to the South Norfolk landscape.