My paintings are often visual poems or narratives. I will think of a theme and employ my imagination to develop ideas. I use something in the natural or real world to start off with as I believe you get an energy from sitting in front of a scene or an object in the first instance. Afterwards, I may refer back to that, but find that my subconscious mind, away from the subject, creates shapes, tones and marks and compositional elements which I can then incorporate. As I am also a writer I ask myself what emotion I am trying to portray and what the painting is saying.

The texture and manipulation of paint itself and its rhythms fascinate me, and it is a never-ending experience to let materials do what they want whilst also controlling the results to fit in with the whole picture. I work in different media, but would describe myself as a colourist.

There is no one particular artist I emulate exclusively, though Van Gogh and Edvard Munch are painters I identify with. However, often I will use a technique or type of mark which I can see in the work of both historical and contemporary artists, but use it in my own way. I can see in Turner, the impressionists and the post-impressionists, techniques and ways of seeing to use and take further creatively in art today. The way that modern and conceptual artists have worked also opens up new ways of presenting visual images.

I exhibit work locally and have sold paintings in places where I produced coastal paintings.

Exhibitions:
Open Studios, Alfred East Gallery, Kettering - August 31st to September 14th 2008.
Toller Church, Gold Street, Kettering - September 6th-7th 2008.

See my Gallery to view my work, which I hope you enjoy. Should you be interested in buying prints of my work or the original paintings, see contact details.

© Copyright Sally Angell 2008