Blurring Time and Tide This new series of landscape and seascape paintings explores the intense yet fleeting nature of memory and its effect upon the present.
By contemporary Welsh landscape artist
Sarah Jane Brown 2018
Thoughts come and go like the reflections of clouds passing by on the wet sand or like the flotsam and jetsam washed over the rocks with the tide. Forgetting the everyday, letting everything go and just absorbing the moment allows memories to come, ephemerally, like the sea washing in and out and leaving marks on the landscape. Sarah Jane Brown
Blurring Time and Tide Inspired by personal recollections of the coast, Sarah Jane Brown's new series of paintings explores the intense yet fleeting nature of memory and its effect upon the present. Sarah Jane uses painting as a way to engage with personal experience and emotion. The coastal landscape near her home is source material for much of her work, though her approach is more introspective, allowing her to explore powerful themes that go beyond simple visual representation. 'The details don't matter, what matters is the feeling; the sound of the sea, the gulls, the wind, the smell of the salt in the air, the feel of the elements on your skin, and the thoughts that pass through your head when you're standing on a beach or a cliff top.' On this personal journey, she looks to share her experiences and through her paintings offer others the opportunity to feel something that will perhaps make a difference to them, something fundamental.
A brief unveiling 61cm x 91cm | oil on canvas
A sense of summer 30cm x 40cm | oil on canvas
A slow burn 40cm x 50cm | oil on canvas
Blurred lines 30cm x 40cm | oil on canvas
Communicating something 30cm x 40cm | oil on canvas
Flood the senses 60cm x 60cm | oil on canvas
Fresh thinking 40cm x 30cm | oil on canvas
Getting some air 24cm x 30cm | oil on canvas board
Hats and barrels 60cm x 60cm | oil on canvas
I remember 100cm x 160cm | oil on canvas
In the final hour 50cm x 100cm | oil on canvas
It feels like change 50cm x 100cm | oil on canvas
It never fails 30cm x 24cm | oil on canvas board
Just a vague thought 40cm x 30cm | oil on canvas
Lingering days 40cm x 40cm | mixed media on canvas
Out on the water 50cm x 100cm | oil on canvas
Pensive moments 30cm x 40cm | oil on canvas
Pressing reset 24cm x 30cm | oil on canvas board
Pulling me in 40cm x 40cm | mixed media on canvas
Reflected obsession 40cm x 50cm | oil on canvas
Reflective thoughts 40cm x 40cm | mixed media on canvas
Regal sands 40m x 50cm | oil on canvas
Regal sky 40cm x 50cm | oil on canvas
Reminiscent 40cm x 50cm | mixed media on canvas
Searching 50cm x 50cm | oil on canvas
Somewhere in the distance 40cm x 50cm | oil on canvas
Striking out 60cm x 60cm | oil on canvas
The last storm 40cm x 50cm | oil on canvas
The way I see it 50cm x 100cm | oil on canvas
Things change 30cm x 40cm | oil on canvas
When the wind turns chilly 40cm x 50cm | oil on canvas
Winter walk 30cm x 40cm | oil on canvas
Sarah Jane Brown
Sarah Jane Brown lives in the heart of the spectacular Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in West Wales, where her environment and earlier maritime career have instilled a deep affinity with the sea. Changing direction later in life, she studied Fine Art Painting at the West Wales School of the Arts gaining a first class honours degree. Since graduating, Sarah Jane's career as a professional artist has steadily gained momentum and recognition. Sarah Jane has exhibited widely in the UK including several solo shows in Cardiff and numerous prestigious exhibitions in London, including the Cork Street Open in Mayfair. An Associate Member (AGSA) of The Guild Society of Artists, her notable highlights include exhibiting with the Royal Society of Marine Artists at London's Mall Galleries, and the Royal Cambrian Academy in North Wales. Currently exhibiting internationally in Barcelona, her work now attracts collectors from across the world. Combining a mix of ‘old master’ and contemporary techniques, Sarah Jane's rich and expressive style uses a variety of methods; staining, glazing and blending in many layers, gradually building up thickness and texture. Paint is applied with brushes, knives, rags and sometimes fingers. It is painted, scraped, flicked, spattered and poured on, and sometimes off again, until the finished painting presents itself. Conceptually her paintings are an outpouring of personal feeling and a strong sense of place. Whilst the works are not abstract, they are open to interpretation. Many offer a duality, using the landscape metaphorically to describe thoughts and emotions.
Connecting with the space of being out in the landscape allows you to gain perspective; to be more aware of everything around you, to look both inward and outward whilst being in the present moment. Sarah Jane Brown
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