The paintings of Sarah West
Sarah West works with different types of surfaces, combining old papers and manuscripts with her own painting, reworking and breathing new life into papers forgotten or put aside, combining them with newly painted surfaces.
Small mosaics deliver bright worlds of tiny hand painted individual squares and colours, carefully balanced into compositions – as individual pieces or scaled up into sets for larger compositions. The mosaic is a repeated theme in Sarah’s work as the smaller images, complete in themselves, are given new and different emphasis when presented in carefully balanced groups or sets.
Black watercolours are spontaneous and dramatic, evoking empty, romantic landscapes and far horizons.
The larger tile compositions stir memories of forgotten interiors, lost letters, echoes of music, faded tiles and brocade drapes, worn and nostalgic, but tranquil and calming.
Sarah West Biography
Born
Birmingham, ’65
Educated in Lancashire
Art Studies: Chelsea School of Art – London
Masana Art School – Barcelona | Spain
Work & Life
Moved to Spain ’88
Andalucia initially, then Barcelona | Spain
‘What Transpires’, Diptych, Collage on wood, 60 x 20 cm (2x)
SARAH WEST Exhibitions
2020
DelicARTessen, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona | Spain
2019
DelicARTessen, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona | Spain
Hipermerc `art, La Sala Vinçon, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
2018
Hipermerc `art, La Sala Vinçon, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
DelicARTessen, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona | Spain
2018
Farindola International Arts Festival
2007
L´illa d´art, L´illa Diagonal Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
Galeria Alegria, Collectiva | San Juan, Puerto Rico
Villa del Arte, Marina Village, Barcelona | Spain
ArTGN Collectiva, Tarragona
Art Expo Las Vegas, ThirdandWall Art Group | USA
Art Expo New York, ThirdandWall Art Group | USA
Hipermerc `art, La Sala Vinçon, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
2006
Hipermerc´art, La Sala Vinçon, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
DelicARTessen, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona | Spain
L´illa d´art, L´illa Diagonal Galeria, Safia, Barcelona | Spain
Art for Offices, London UK
2005
Hipermerc´art, La Sala Vinçon, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
DelicARTessen, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona | Spain
Art for Offices, London UK
‘Circle series 1’ Painted collage on board, 22 cm
2004
On The Wall Art Fair, London, UK
Hipermerc´art, La Sala Vinçon, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
DelicARTtessen, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona | Spain
Art for Offices, London UK
L ìlla d àrt, Lìlla Diagonal Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
2003
Flamicell, Arte contemporaneo, Barcelona | Spain
The Hart Gallery, London UK
Moreton Contemporay Art, London UK
L´ílla d´art, L´illa Diagonal, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
Hipermerc´art, La Sala Vinçon, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
DelicARTtessen, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona | Spain
2002
L´illa d´art, L´illa Diagonal, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
Moreton Contemporary Art, London, UK
Hipermerc´art, La Sala Vinçon, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
2001
L´illa d´art, L´illa Diagonal, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
Hipermerc´art, La Sala Vinçon, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
Galeria Esther Montoriol,exposicion individual, Barcelona | Spain
2000
Hipermerc´art, Las Rozas Company Stores, La Roca Company
La Sala Vinçon, Galeria Safia, Barcelona | Spain
Sarah West – Recent Works
150×150 cm
Sarah West | abstract painter
e-mail: Contact
Studio address Barcelona:
Calle Sant Pere Mes Baix 42, 2 int.
Barcelona
08003
