Sarah Lees RCA

A resident of rural Carmarthenshire, Sarah’s work focuses on the visual language of the land and how it has been shaped by our interference with it.  Her landscapes are empty of human presence, showing only the raw design left behind: stripped back boundaries, thickets and thin stands, tracks and river bends. Sarah's work often returns to the edge of the land where cultivation and wildness coincide, and revisits favourite places repeatedly to try and capture what makes landscape so compelling.  She often paints on panel, paying close attention to surface detail and overpainting with delicate, muted glazes to achieve depth. She also works back with imprints and marks to give expression, paying close attention to the finished surface..  Working en plein air is an essential element of Sarah’s process, supporting and augmenting work produced in the studio.