Sarah Poland

Sarah is one of the artists who exhibits in our annual fundraiser and you will find her as a guest tutor across our Year-Long courses.

The presence of landscape and being in it is the source to Sarah's work and always having had a strong connection to the sea, her current work in particular relates to the ocean.

She says, 'These paintings are about breathing, about what we yearn for, and the space created when being caught off guard by something which takes us away from our physical reality for a moment; a meditation, a portal. They are also about beauty and time'.

Her work includes painting, immersive installation, work on paper, print, photography and natural dyed clothing. 

The colours used all come from botanical sources. She forages and regeneratively grows dye plants in her studio garden. Always looking to develop her creative practice more sustainably, in using these colours, she seeks to bring us closer to the colour readily available around us and thus consider the immense value of our wild places and the wider issues of plastic pollution and climate change.

'Sarah Poland’s beautifully installed show at Elysium Gallery in Swansea is a peaceful, immersive environment where one can sense the synergistic relationship still possible between humans and the natural world. It represents years of work and exploration and is a beautiful testament to this artist’s desire to live in harmony with her environment.'__________________   Elizabeth Hanson, artist, Geneva.