Sarah is delighted that her exhibition Lost Worlds opens at Dawyck Botanic Gardens after more than a year of postponement due to Covid19.
Since lockdown, Sarah refocused her research and art by drawing ‘en plein-air’ in her immediate surroundings; in neighbours gardens, at Dr Neil’s Garden, the Botanics, Malleny Gardens and along the Forth shoreline. In the studio, she used lockdown to explore new motifs for a series called ‘Lost worlds’, and through the process of making multiple drawings and paintings she has found a pictorial language to describe our changed world in watercolours, oil paintings and prints.
Her painting and prints occupy a liminal realm between an observed encounter and her memory of a place. The painting begins in the everyday world but as the artwork develops it suggests something beyond. Sarah exhibits widely and was honoured to be one of a select group of artists to represent Scotland in this year’s Fabriano in Acquarello international watercolour exhibition in Italy.
“When painting is going well it feels like flying. It’s often the work produced when I’m outside with a sketchbook balanced on my lap and the materials at my feet that I relax and produce magical and fluid images of the landscape. I found that visiting RBGE throughout lockdown was a privilege and a lifeline for mental wellbeing. I am so excited to exhibit this new work at Dawyck and to share how my theme of Lost Worlds emerged because of my reduced boundaries during lockdown.”
https://www.rbge.org.uk/whats-on/lost-worlds-by-sarah-knox/49754
