Sarah Jane Brown

About

Biography

Sarah Jane Brown lives in the heart of the spectacular Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. She studied Fine Art as a mature student, although she had been painting for more than 20 years. Specialising in Painting at the West Wales School of the Arts, she was awarded ‘Student of the Year’ and graduated with a First Class Honours Degree. She has since exhibited widely and her work is now held in many private collections across the UK and overseas.

Painting for Sarah Jane is an intimate way of expressing both herself and her environment. She often incorporates elements of drawing, and photography into her preliminary practise; these are ways of embedding the landscape into her 'mind’s eye' and to work out ideas for painting. Work is then built up in layers, combinations of thin glazes with thick impasto. Often she also includes ‘sfumato’, (subtle blending) to produce an atmospheric effect. This variety of techniques allows her to imbue the work with a personal feeling for light, space, and elemental forces, as well as a sense of intimacy and wonder and a range of other emotions that the experience of landscape can unleash.

‘The coastal landscape near my home in Pembrokeshire is source material for my work, however my approach to painting is largely introspective; it’s more about how being in the landscape makes me feel.

I walk, photograph, sketch and make painted studies. In the studio these observations are transformed, becoming more loose and expressive as I engage with the physicality of painting, sometimes verging into abstraction.

This physicality, echoes (in a very personal way) the sensations of being in the landscape; sometimes calm, restorative, or spiritually uplifting; at other times wild, dynamic, & mentally energising. The fluid, gestural nature of paint is also responsive to these thoughts and feelings.

The titles are phrases that cross my mind whilst I am out in the landscape; excerpts from poetry, remembered conversations, or just snippets of my own thoughts.’

Sarah Jane Brown

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Work

Recent Exhibitions:

2012

ParallaxAF, SoHo, New York, August 13, 2012
Shortlisted for the Cork Street Open 2012
Shortlisted for Royal Society of Marine Artists Exhibition, The Mall Galleries
Spring/Summer shows at - Nick Holly Gallery,Swansea - Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven & Off The Wall, Cardiff
‘All is not as it seems’ (2 person show), Off The Wall Gallery, Cardiff
Printmaking Show, Queens Hall Gallery, Narbeth
Womens Arts Association Exhibition, The Gate Arts Centre, Cardiff
‘Colour and form in nature’, The Mac Gallery,Doncaster January 2012

2011

ParallaxAF, La Galleria, Pall Mall, London
From within, Cloisters Gallery, St.Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire
Tros Gynnal Plan, (touring exhibition): Swansea Museum, Llangollen International Pavillion, Aardvark Books - Shropshire, & The Washington Gallery - Penarth
Candid Arts Painting & Sculpture Exhibition (curated group show) Islington, London
The Nick Holly Gallery, The Exchange Building, Cambrian Place, Swansea.
Summer Show, Off the Wall Gallery, Llandaff, Cardiff Of Landscape, Picton Castle Gallery, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
…along the path (joint show) The Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven.
Intel, (In house exhibition), Swindon
An exhibition celebrating International Womens Day , Off the Wall Gallery, Cardiff
Resident Artists Show, Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven.
Lines and Strata 2 - Contemporary Welsh Drawing Exhibition, (Touring Wales) Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery, BANGOR
Re-fresh (group show) Oriel Joanna Fields Gallery, Milford Haven.

2010

Christmas/new year show, Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven
Christmas Show, Off the Wall Gallery, Llandaff, Cardiff
Lines and Strata 2, Art Matters, Tenby,
Tros Gynnal, touring exhibition: Llangollen International Pavilion
Print Making Show, Waterfront Gallery, The Quay, Milford Haven.
National Trust Exhibition, Newton House, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire.
Tros Gynnal, touring exhibition: The Atrium and the Central Library, Cardiff
Lines and Strata 2, Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan
Sensitive Stones, (Solo show) The Cloister Gallery, St. Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire.
The Nick Holly Gallery, The Exchange Building, Cambrian Place, Swansea.
Tros Gynnal, touring exhibition: Swansea Museum
Oriel Q Summer Show, Queens Hall Gallery, Narbeth.
The Free Range Art Show, Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London.
West Wales School of the Arts, Jobswell Road, Carmarthen
Oriel Henry Thomas (Group Show), Carmarthen.
Oriel Y Felin, Nun Street, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire.

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