Sigrid Müller

Sigrid Müller moved to Wales from Germany in 1996 and has been a full-time artist for thirty years. She builds her drawings with layer upon layer of very fine pencil crayon on backgrounds of pooled watercolour washes, a meticulous process that can take several weeks from preliminary sketches to finished painting. The background is a dynamic and integral part of each work, as important as the subjects themselves, providing an imagined space where they can live — suspended, with nothing to hold on to, or existing on seemingly firm ground. Her subjects are chosen intuitively, not searched for but come upon, arresting her attention in the promise of a closely furled iris bud, the dry rattle of a seed pod, or the soft ripeness of a plum.
Sigrid exhibited at the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff and is now represented by Celf Gallery, also in Cardiff. In 2001, the Derek Williams Trust purchased her work for the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, and in 2014 she was second prize-winner in the prestigious Jerwood Drawing Prize Competition. The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, acquired two of her paintings for its Permanent Collection in 2016, funded by the Contemporary Art Society of Wales, and her work was selected for the 250 Year Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, in 2018. Her work is held in private collections throughout the UK and abroad.