Sarah Jane Brown

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Along The Path

Along The Path

Along The Path

Burst

I dreamt the smell of a damp grey dawn

Fearless

Unscathed

Sarah Jane Brown was born in 1970 and lives in the heart of the spectacular Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Although she has been a self-taught artist for more than twenty years, she finally embarked on a formal art education in 2005, studying Foundation Art and Design at Pembrokeshire College. Subsequently, she specialised in Fine Art (Painting) at the West Wales School of the Arts, where she was awarded 'Student of the Year' and graduated with a First Class Honours Degree.

Painting is for Sarah Jane an intimate way of expressing herself and the landscape she loves. She often incorporates elements of drawing, printmaking, and photography into her practise; these are ways of embedding the landscape into her 'mind's eye' and to 'work out' ideas for painting.

'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.'