Sarah Neale

Neale's practice is intuitive and often primal.  She paints on the floor on unstretched canvas in order to get close to the paint, to the process....

"I paint on the floor to listen to my body responding to the surface and the pigment. I love the touch of paint, the liquidity, the flow or the silky sensation of oil paint." Neale describes looking at her paintings as 'Free falling' through gestural mark making, thick lines of oil stick  or dashes of spray paint,  trying to see where the painting takes her. Slowly more formal elements arise: depth, shapes, space creating semi-abstract 'landscapes' with every mark painted then wiped away with a rag. The surface is continually overpainted in an effort to get to the core of the painting. To excavate, to find new ground, to ignite new energy into the surface, to excite. The rich layers of oils added and obliterated tell a story of questioning and new searching.

 

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Sarah Neale studied Fine Art at Camberwell, University of the Arts London and subsequently completed a PGCE at The Institute, University College London. Currently Turps Offsite Programme 2024. Sarah lives and works in London.

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