"Painting for me, is a journey—one that moves between the body’s own space and everything happening outside. I’m caught between the private and the public, the inside and the outside. I am constantly hunting for colours. My work is very much affected by the sounds outside of my studio, the colour of the evening sky, the heat in the air, a snatch of conversation, a flicker of a memory from years gone by, or just the light around me."  Sarah Neale 

Neale never use sketches or has a pre-determined idea of the finished piece.  Her process is long, unpredictable, and often erratic.  Working in rapid concentrated bursts, she moves  across the canvas, establishing a route with her body. Colours come and go, paint and mark making accumulate on the surface, a being begins to take form. Gestural, stabbing movements are often swathed with washes of turps and blotted over by large brushstrokes, these, are often obliterated ready for the next round. The painting has to feel ‘lived in’. Colour and energy are Neale's main concerns. She is not satisfied until the painting has a feeling of excitement, a feeling of  a 'beating  heart'.

 

 

 

​​​Education​​

Turps Offsite Programme

​The Institute of Education, UCL, PGCE in Secondary Education

​Camberwell School of Art, UAL, BA Hons Fine Art, Painting ​​​