ARTIST STATEMENT
Sara Owen’s paintings are carriers of sensation, containers of feelings and emotions in response to landscapes experienced, a relationship with people, events and things seen.
She uses the known qualities of the experience against the unknown qualities of the memory. Memory is subjective, insubstantial and filters a seen image that is further interpreted through imagination and colour.
Sara Owen is particularly interested in the edges where colours meet and overlap to create shallow space so that with thin glazes, and the geometric structure of the Golden Ratio, these are a metaphor for the moving threshold between the conscious event and the unconscious emotional response, balanced in the act of painting.
BIOGRAPHY
Wimbledon School of Art, Foundation Diploma
Wimbledon School of Art, BA Hons, Fine Art
The Slade School of Art, MA, Printmaking
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Drella Gallery, Godalming, Surrey
2003 Artlands at The Churchill Inter Continental, London
2001 The Stables Gallery, Orleans House, Twickenham
1999 Cross Street Gallery, London
1998 Bar Council, London
1997 Riverside Room Gallery, Richmond, Surrey
1996 Riverside Club, Chiswick
1992 St Paul's Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Café Gallery, Southwark Park, London
Collective Studios, London
Art in The Garden, Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden, London
2010 Art in The Garden, Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden, London
2009 Cry of the Gull, Fowey, Cornwall
2008 Art in The Garden, The Hospital, Covent Garden, London
Cry of the Gull, Fowey, Cornwall
Cry of the Gull, Brighton
2007 Artlands, Wolterton House, Norfolk
Stuart Mackenzie, London
2006 Ardent Art, The Affordable Art Fair, London
Artlands, Norfolk
2005 Art on Paper Fair, London
Artlands, King’s Lyn Art Week, Norfolk
Twist Art&Design, London
2004 Artlands, Norfolk
LondonPrintGallery, London
2003 Artlands, Norfolk
LondonPrintGallery, London
Woolff Gallery, London
2002 Artlands, Norfolk
The Century Gallery, Hoxton, London
2001 The Fowey River Gallery, Fowey, Cornwall
Twist Art&Design, The Affordable Art Fair, London
The Lycee, Kennington, London
2000 Orleans Gallery, Twickenham
1999 Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives
Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London
Raw Art Gallery, London
1998 Juliet Gould Gallery, Mevagissey, Cornwall
White Lane Gallery, Plymouth
1997 King’s College Hospital, London
Battersea Contemporary Art Fair
Queens Road Gallery, Aberdeen
1996 Salthouse Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London
Orleans House Gallery, Richmond
White Lane Gallery, Plymouth
1994 Small Mansion Arts Centre, London
Burlington New Gallery, London
Juliet Gould Gallery, Fowey, Cornwall
1993 Art for Sale, (The Guardian), Whiteleys, London
Small Mansion Arts Centre, London
1991 Speyhawk Centre, London
COLLECTIONS:
Leigh Day & Co, London. Lloyds Bank, London. Platinum House, Clerkenwell, London. Sonny’s Restaurant, Barnes.
Profile Public Relations, Kew. Sultan of Brunai. Lord Mayor’s Parlour, Richmond-upon-Thames. Stuart Mackenzie, London.