Land And Light | New paintings by Sarah Woods

land and light

by sarah woods

‘ land and light ’

26 th june - 26 th july 2024

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Sarah Woods makes paintings inspired by the landscape of West Cornwall. In a palette drawn directly from the distinctive light of the Penwith peninsula she captures the beauty and tranquillity of the coast, with a focus is on the physical process of painting, where material and mark are brought together through a slow and subtle response to the artist’s subject. This new collection has been created throughout the spring and early summer. It includes large scale paintings and a series of smaller landscape studies in Sarah’s distinctly restful palette. Each painting is framed in unfinished oak, bringing focus to the natural simplicity of process and materials.

“This collection for the New Craftsman features the coastline from St Ives and the West Coast, on canvases painted in my Newlyn studio. The studio is the quietest space, which allows for a meditation on the landscapes I see. Each painting conveys a feeling of the spaces I am drawn to for their balanced compositions, their openness, and the rawness of the sea and land. There is something in the tranquillity of brushstrokes and simplicity of colour, tone and movement that informs each piece. The richness and warmth of the days inspire saturated palettes and hues mixed from cerulean blue and yellow ochre, shades found in May and June in the softness of skies or the movement of sea. The studio has such a beautiful work feeling when I am painting from St Ives. Light, from the moment the sun rises, brings dreamlike shades that I translate onto canvas when I reach the studio. Familiar, simple forms are repeated until I feel them intuitively, seasonally shifting between a gentle landscape and an elemental space. Each painting is determined by a balance of light, a composition created with outlines of land against open spaces, sea and skyoutlines and contours of the landscape known so intimately by my brush and canvas.

‘Making an object look like what you see is not as important as making the whole square you paint it on feel like what you feel about the object’ Georgia O’Keeffe.

Each of my paintings holds a simplicity and connectedness to the landscapes I am drawn to, captured along the coast and created through an intuitive, gentle process in the studio.

Sarah Woods, 2024

Please visit our website for further details about the collection

1. ‘A Study Looking West’ - 100x100cm, acrylic on canvas , £2750

2. ‘A Green Landscape in May’ - 90x180cm, acrylic on canvas , £3200

3. ‘Along the West Coast’ - 130x130cm, acrylic on canvas , £4200

4. ‘Blue Hues, Porthminster’ - 100x100cm, acrylic on canvas , £2750

5. ‘A Study of the Island’ - 60x110cm, acrylic on canvas £2550

6. ‘Blue Shades, Porthmeor’ - 130x130cm, acrylic on hand sewn canvas , £4200

7. ‘Bright Hues Looking West’ - 100x100cm, acrylic on canvas , £2750

8. ‘Dark Green Headland, Porthmeor’ - 90x180cm, acrylic on canvas , £3200

9. ‘Bright Morning Shades, Porthmeor’ - 90x180cm, acrylic on canvas , £3200

10. ‘Calm Shades at High Tide’ - 100x100cm, acrylic on canvas , £2750

11. ‘Coastal Light, Porthminster’ - 100x100cm, acrylic on canvas , £2750

12. ‘Green Landscape, St Ives’ - 130x130cm, acrylic on canvas , £4200

13. ‘High Tide Looking West’ - 100x100cm, acrylic on canvas , £2750

14. ‘Light Across the Ocean, St Ives’ - 130x130cm, acrylic on canvas , £4200

15. ‘Looking Across the Sea, St Ives’ - 100x100cm, acrylic on canvas , £2750

16. ‘May Green, Porthmeor’ - 130x130cm, acrylic on canvas , £4200

17. ‘Porthmeor Cove Study’ - 100x100cm, acrylic on canvas , £2750

18. ‘Grey Blue Seascape’ - 60x110cm, acrylic on canvas £2550

19. ‘Porthminster’ - 130x130cm, acrylic on canvas , £4200

20. ‘Quiet Sound of the Sea’ - 100x100cm, acrylic on canvas , £2750

21. ‘Still Landscape, Porthmeor’ - 75x75cm, acrylic on canvas , £1850