Sarah Neale

My practice is intuitive and often primal.  I like to paint  on the floor, to get close to the paint, 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 oils. 'Free falling' through gestural mark making, thick lines of oil stick  or dashes of spray paint, I like to see where the painting takes me.  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 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. Sarah lives and works in London.

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