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 collaged pieces are titled Night Watch and Moon Drawing. They are painted with oak gall ink on paper (some with traditional gesso) and are collaged next to what I call Moon Drawings. In 2010 I moved to West Wales and lived in an ancient oak woodland for five years and discovered that ink could be made from oak galls. The photographic Moon Drawings I make during a full moon, using a long exposure with the moon as a light source. Here, night and day lie shoulder to shoulder.

 The card maquettes are for a 3-D painting installation titled Shape Shifter - Bird Lover. This was shown during my solo exhibition at Elysium Gallery in Swansea in 2003. The piece had its own gallery space and was to be viewed as a whole, rather than individual pieces. I call these 3-D paintings and they came about when I lived in the woodland and would search for the light in the negative spaces.

The paintings titled Clearing, are also from my time in the woodland. Much of that series was shown during my 2008 solo exhibition at Belgrave St. Ives.