W&N materials used
Griffin Fast Drying Oil Colour,
Artists’ Water Colour,
Designers Gouache,
Drawing Inks
About Sarah wimperis
Born in 1959 in Kent, I began painting at a very early age due to family influences and an inability to spell. Then I ran away to sea in 1978 to study Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art and graduated with a degree in 1981.
I exhibited with the Portal Gallery, travelled the world and painted all the way, to China, Russia, Israel before finally settling in Norway for 6 years. I taught (art of course) and returned to Cornwall to raise a family. I painted murals for a while then became a professional illustrator. I then spent four years in France, still painting and illustrating and landed back in Cornwall and decided to stay put.
In 2008 I exhibited with 'Beside the Wave' gallery in Falmouth from and in 2010 I was accepted for the Royal Watercolour Society open exhibition and had paintings accepted for the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour 2010. I also work as the "official blogger" for Beside the Wave Gallery...and I'm still painting.
Sarah wimperis's Work
I paint in watercolour and oils. Watercolour because I like the unpredictability of the process and the sense of achievement that each painting brings. I enjoy the tradition of watercolour and many of the artists, whose work I admire, are masters in this far from simple medium. Oils because of my love for the intensity of colour and solidity that they bring to my work. An oil painting becomes like a window into another world. Sketchbooks are my constant companions. I firmly believe in the old fashioned notion that solid draughtsmanship is the basis for good painting and daily drawing practice is necessary to the health of the artist and their artwork. I hope to capture the light and mood of the places that I know intimately. By painting I am trying to hold on to a moment in time. Tiny slivers of the natural life that surrounds me, documented before they disappear from view. Drawing, painting are fundamental to my experience of life and expression of this is, for me, an essential and natural way of living.
For further information on Sarah wimperis visit:
www.sarahwimperis.co.uk
www.muddyredshoes.blogspot.com
sarah@sarahwimperis.co.uk