SARAH GODFREY - Artists Statement

Sarah has always had a very spontneous and intuitive approach when making her artwork. She has two disitinct styles .

As Sarah trained as an Illustrator it is not surprising this is her first love , she creates highly sophisticated, over the top images, purely imaginative and fantasical. She uses as many different methods of mark making within one image as she can lay her hands on, obsessively layering and relayering. Images may be inspired by memories, stories, etc always added to by Sarahs own unique way of seeing, she wishes to entice and encourage the viewer to look deeper into the images and get involved.

Sarah is inspired by primitive arts, niave art, outsider and childrens art.With folk art and fairgrounds, tapestries, pottery, grand old houses, old toys which she loves to draw and incorporate into her illustrations at a later stage.

Over the last four years Sarah has been researching the non toxic intaglio-type printmaking technique supported by Arts Council England. This testing of the process required Sarah to work in a very different manner. It was not practical to work on a detailed images, when the process may go wrong, Sarah now had to focus on the process rather than the imagery .As a result she has produced a recent series of exploratory prints which are purely expressionistic, impulsive and passionate. Each print has layers of colours and marks, indulgencies in colour, shape and form.

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D.O.B. 29.5.1973

ART EDUCATION

1995 - 97 Pg/Dip Comunication Design , Illustration, 'DISTINCTION'

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.

1992 - 95 BA(Hons) Graphic Design, Illustration, 'FIRST CLASS'

Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich.

1991 - 92 Art and Design Foundation Course, 'DISTINCTION'

Chesterfield College of Art and Design.

CAREER HISTORY

Professional Artist and Art workshop leader - ongoing.

2005 Set up own business. The Specialist Artist Printmaking Consultancy. To promote and increase awareness of the non-toxic Intaglio-type printmaking technique, through provision of exhibitions and by providing expertise regarding setting up and training of the technique.

Artist Access to Art Colleges scheme in Printmaking, Derby University.

2002-04 Artist in Residence at West Yorkshire Print workshop, supported by Arts

Council England to research and develop the non toxic Intaglio-type printmaking technique.

2002 Artist in Residence, Seedlings Arts Festival, Hatfield House.

2000-01 Artist Access to Art Colleges Scheme in Printmaking, Lincolnshire and Humberside University.

1991-2001 Studio Holder and Arts Education Officer, Crescent Arts, Scarborough.

1998-99 Artescape Fellowship in Painting, Sturton by Stow, Lincolnshire,

1998 May Burton Agnes Hall, Residency in Painting, Driffield, North Yorkshire.

1998 Feb-April Arts Residencey in Illustration, Bourn Cambridgeshire.

EXHIBITIONS Click on Gallery name to see work

Sarah has work on continous show at The Tinners Rabbit -Ulverston, Pierrrepont Gallery, -Thorseby Park, Notts, Calder Gallery - Hebden Bridge, Cupola Gallery - Sheffield, The Coopere Gallery - Barnsley, The Salt Gallery - Hayle, Cornwall, The Ropewalk- Barton on Humber, Lincs.