SARAH STRACHAN
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Since 2021 she has been drawing and painting and had a solo exhibition at Birdwood House in Totnes in 2024 as well as being in group shows and open studio events.
Her work is abstract, intuitive, conscious of not being over-worked, seeking a balance between shape and form. Her practice begins with sketching, filling pages with linear forms which are then realised, in this latest series, on old book covers. The unpredictable nature of how ink or paint will take on old paper and the muted tones of paper and book covers enhances and frames the work.
She is influenced by modernist architecture, brutalist concrete structures and mid century design but also by mundane everyday objects, a wooden painted brick, a formica tabletop or a cooking pot.