June buzzards at Cwm yr Eglwys
|
November ravens at stormy
Strumble
|
Puffins and Bluebells at Skokholm
Island
|
September seals and choughs
at Strumble
|
Shooting Star
|
Summer swallows under Carningli
|
The first swallow
|
|
Glan y Mor stocks
a range of Sarah's prints and cards. Her prints are giclee and are often
hand finished by Sarah with touches of gold or silver.
In Sarah's own words:
I have lived in north
Pembrokeshire for over seventeen years - before moving here I visited regularly
for holidays - and I now feel I have a deep affinity with this unique landscape.
Walking in Pembrokeshire has
always been my passion – I must have walked hundreds of miles over the
years in all seasons and in all weathers – along the rugged coastal path
above cliff-bound coves, across wide, windy beaches, on the bare blue-stone
hills and in the ancient oak woods and secret green valleys of this marvellously
varied county.
The things I see while out
walking inspire my paintings: low white-washed cottages and grey-stone
farmhouses, small lichen-walled fields of early potatoes, black-faced sheep
dotted across hillsides, wind-bent hawthorn bushes and always the ever-changing
sea. I paint entirely from my imagination, creating very personal interpretations
of places remembered from my walks, some places are real, others are imagined.
Walking also makes me very
aware of the seasons - the colours of the sky and the sea and the land
are constantly changing with the weather and as the year turns. And the
colours I see in this landscape are vivid and bold – violet storm clouds,
a viridian-green inlet, a cerulean blue sky, a silver river, a purple hill-side.
And, for me, the landscape
I see is full of small but essential detail. Pembrokeshire’s wild flowers
are an especially important part of this – snowdrops, blackthorn blossom
and bluebells in the spring, red campions, ox-eye daisies and foxgloves
in the summer, purple heather and russet bracken in the autumn. And in
every season the blazing yellow glow of gorse flowers in hedgerows and
on hillsides, even bursting through a rare fall of snow in the depths of
winter.
Birds and animals are also
an integral part of my Pembrokeshire landscape - the sudden flash of the
first swallow on a spring morning, an evening fox running across a moonlit
field, a kestrel hovering motionless in the heat of a mid-summer afternoon,
a dolphin leaping high out of a calm sea, a pair of buzzards soaring in
circles over the fields, a gold- speckled barn owl drifting softly by in
the frosty moonlight.
So, all of this I paint into
my pictures to convey what are for me the definitive elements of the north
Pembrokeshire landscape.
To the left are some images of Sarah's work.
They are not linked at present, so if you'd like any more information,
please contact me.
|