Rachel Sargent
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.
Qualifications and training 1981 - BA Hons Art, Roehampton Institute, University of London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 - SHADOWS Shaftesbury Arts Centre
2013 - Off the Beaten Track, Lower Lawn Barn, Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire
2012 - Walking the Chalk, Pythouse Garden Cafe, Hatch, Wiltshire
2011 - In All Lights, Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Dorset 2011 - New Paintings, Pyt House Garden Cafe, Wiltshire
2011 - Rachel Sargent, Pythouse Kitchen Garden, Tisbury
2010 - New Works, The Gallery, Chard, Somerset
2010 - Rachel Sargent, The Gallery, Chard
2009 - New Works, Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Shaftesbury Dorset
2008 - New Works, Bell Street Gallery, Shaftesbury, Dorset
2008 - Riverlight, The Exchange, Sturminster Newton, Dorset
2007 - Wylye Valley Art Trail, Bath Arms, Crokerton, Wiltshire
2006 - New works, Black Swan Arts Cafe, Frome
2005 - New Works, Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2003 - New Works, Chard Art, Chard, Somerset
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Sticks to Stones, Gallery 54, London, Elements, The Quad, Derby,
2012 - Dorset Art Weeks, Dorset Centre for Rural Skills, Blandford
2012 - From Sticks to Stone, The 54 Gallery, Mayfair
2012 - Illuminated, Quad, Derby
2011 - Dorset Art weeks, Dorset Centre for rural Skills, Blandford
2011 - Somerset Art Weeks, Mudford Village Hall, Somerset
2010 - Dorset Art Weeks, Dorset Centre for Rural Skills, Blandford
2010 - Lookout, Portland Arts Centre, Portland
2010 - Rachel Sargent, Ashley Wood Farm, Tisbury
2010 - Six plus One, Rook Lane Chapel, Frome
2010 - Stock Gaylard Oak Fair, Stock Gaylard Estate, Sturminster Newton
2009 - BARK!, Shaftesburt Arts Centre, Shaftesbury
2009 - New Gallery, Wilton Art Gallery, Wilton, Salisbury
2009 - Wylye Valley Art Trail, Pyt House, Wiltshire
2007 - The Art of Commons, Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Shaftesbury
2004 - December Exhibition, World End Gallery, Chelsea, London
2004 - Time Being, Sherborne House, Dorset
2003 - Christmas Takeaway, Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset
2002 - Mixed exhibition, Maltby Contemporary Art, Winchester, Hants Curated projects
2009 - BARK! A Celebration of Trees, Turnbulls Deli, Shaftesbury, Dorset
2008 - Pinpointing Portland, Rook Lane Gallery, Frome
2008 - Something in Disguise, The Slade Gallery, Dorset
2007 - Breach - The Art of Commons, Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Dorset Workshops 2012 - Making images of the Jurassic Coast, Lulworth heritage centre, East Lulworth
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2009 - Three paintings, Royal Brompton Hospital, London Competitions,
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2015 - Evolver Prize 2015 (Top 50) Thelma Hubert Gallery , Honiton
2006 - Evolver Prize 2006 (Top 50), Atrium Gallery, Bournemouth
PUBLICATIONS
2014 - Article. Featured artist in Arkadia Magazine
2007 - Breach - The Art of Commons Other
2006 - Article. Featured Artist, DORSET Magazine, Dorset