Sarah Gillespie lives in Devon, England and works full-time as a painter, typically making tiny oil sketches outside in the summer months, and then very large studio canvases and charcoals in the winter. As a student, she studied 16th and 17th century techniques at the Atelier Neo-Medici in Paris. Today, Gillespie adheres to the simple truths that make landscape a perennially significant art form: above all, attentiveness to the nature of the world we live in and the place it will always occupy in the poetic imagination.
Sarah Gillespie lives in Devon, England and works full-time as a painter, typically making tiny oil sketches outside in the summer months, and then very large studio canvases and charcoals in the winter. In Bend in the river, an ambitious and highly detailed drawing, Gillespie imbues an otherwise unnoticed passage with great importance. What appears as ultimate darkness is actually lively with crosshatching depth upon close inspection. Gillespie's attention to detail in the darks punctuates the shiny river and sews light into the image.
Artist to private collection, New York