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Rachel Sargent

Shaftesbury
I paint in mixed media, incorporating printing techniques and collage. My work is about light in the landscape.
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I am absorbed with the way light changes and defines places, constantly transforming the same piece of land, wood or coastline. The changing quality of light and elements against the permanence and stillness of the landscape are central to my work; clouds across a hill, flashes of light through woods, shadows along a track. I use a range of mixed media, printing techniques and collage to create multi-layered surfaces and marks from which the images can evolve. I use the accidental effects that occur in the process of creating surfaces; the chance marks and random settling of oil and water based paints used together. The paintings, as a result, are often as unpredictable as any walk through the land I try to interpret. I have recently moved to a new studio in a converted cowshed at Gold Hill Organic Farm in Child Okeford where I also run workshops.

 

Far West Exhibition

That Still Night

The Green Lane

Finding a way

Within

Gold in the Wood

Following III

One of those days

Coral Beach III

Coral Beach II

Coral Beach I

To the Loch - Morning

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