Since leaving Camberwell School of Art with a BA in Fine Art Sarah has pursued a career as an artist. Since 1989 she has shown regularly both here and abroad and has work in many private collections. In 2019 she was elected as a member of the Royal Society of British Artists.
Sarah Spackman's strength of drawing and the delicate and subtle use of colour are two of the main qualities recognised in her work. She applies the guiding principle that good drawing is the basis of good painting and that colour should be used to enhance the organisation and definition of observed space and form. Best known for her still life, Sarah works in a quiet, considered way, her palette is kept organised so the colour is always fresh and bright. For Sarah, these paintings are a way of exploring the world. Each of the objects that appear in her paintings have been given to Sarah, or found, so have a profound connection. How they stand in their own space impacts on the composition as a whole. This close observation gives them character and weight of their own, so what at first seems like a simple, interior still life, is in fact closer to a meditation on the wider world. Her paintings are quiet in their presence but nonetheless powerful and engaging to the viewer. These are paintings that take a close look at things around us, take the object out of the ordinary and make the viewer look again.
Influences Cezanne, Giacometti, Chardin , Morandi, William Scott, William Coldstream
1977 Byam Shaw School of Art, London
1978-81 Camberwell School of Art, London
1981 3rd Prize Magnolia National Landscape Competition
1986 Winner W&N Young Artist Award
2019 Winner Gordon Hulsom Memorial Prize, RBA Exhibition
2019 Elected member of Royal Society of British Artists
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Jerram Gallery, Dorset with Malcolm Ashman
Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2017 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2016 Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2011 Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2009 Het Cleyne Huis, Den Haag, Holland with Michiel Schrijver
1994-2005 Solomon Gallery, Dublin
1993-1996 Cadogan Gallery, London
1992-2006 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
1988-1990 Austin Desmond Fine Art, Sunninghill
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015-2018 RBA Exhibition, Mall Galleries
ROI Exhibition, Mall Galleries
2017-2018 NEAC Exhibition, Mall Galleries
2016-2019 Belgrave Gallery St Ives
Jerram Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset
Tregony Gallery, Tregony, Cornwall
2015 40 years of Painting, Camberwell students and teachers, St Ives
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2012-2015 Art in Action, Waterperry, Oxon
2014 Still-life Exhibition, Jerram Gallery, Dorset
2012 Jerwood Drawing Competition Exhibition
2011 NEAC Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Painters and Potters, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey
2010 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Still-life and Landscape, Seascape Gallery, Godalming, Surrey
2008/9 Art for Youth, Oxford
2005 Tsunami Art Auction, RHA, Dublin
1998 The Artist and Model, Bishops Palace, Chichester
1997 Cheltenham Open Drawing, National Touring Exhibition.