Sara Twomey
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→ 2022 Collect Art Spring Issue Apr 7, 2022
→ 2015 Black paintings Featured in Art Slant Magazine · Oct 8, 2015
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Group Exhibitions:
→ 2024 Déjà Vu, The Citadel Gallery, Dover, curated by Safari UK
→ 2024 Bloom, The Secret Salon, London, UK
→ 2023 Reconstruct, The Secret Salon, East London, UK
→ 2023 20x20 Vision, Blue House Yard Gallery, curated by Jarelle Francis, London UK
→ 2022 Light, Tebbs Contemporary Art Gallery online Exhibition
→ 2022 The FLUX REVIEW Summer Show, virtual exhibition, London, UK
→ 2022 Oppositions, virtual exhibition, The Holy Art, London, UK
→ 2022 Butterfly Effect, Contemporary Art Curator online Exhibition
→ 2020 Colour Abstracts Galleria360, Florence, Italy (Paintings donated to the gallery)
→ 2020 Lost in Isolation, Void Collective, online group exhibition (During Lockdown)
→ 2019 Languages of Art, Galleria360, Florence, Italy
→ 2019 Art Basel for DAC Painting selected at DAC Concept Gallery, Miami USA
→ 2019 See Me selected painting chosen to be exhibited alongside the Affordable Art Fair, New York
→ 2019 Over the Realm of Dreams’ Group exhibition by the curator Rosi Ranier La Pigna Gallery, Rome, Italy
→ 2018 Red Dot Spectrum Miami Art Fair (Booth101)
→ 2018 Circle Arts, Selected 50 finalist in an international online Art competition
→ 2018 10/10 - ‘The Nuance of Dreams’ Group exhibition by the curator Rosi Ranier at The Rouge Space Gallery New York
→ 2017 Brockley Max. Artist in Residence and Teaching workshops in painting in Pubs in South London, UK
→ 2015 Paintings Selected for Florence International Biennial of Contemporary Art Italy (not attended)
→ 2014 The River Thames, Commissioned by the Departure Foundation to paint 14 large paintings during a Residency on Docklands River Thames, London, UK
→ 2013 Final Group Selected for Exhibition, Cork Street Open: Cork Street, Mayfair, London UK
→ 2013 Short Listed – for the “National Open Art Exhibition” London, UK
→ 2013 Thames Gallery, Paintings on Display at Dulwich, South London, UK
→ 2013 SeeMe, Group online Exhibition Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY
→ 2012 Selected for Final Exhibition, Cork Street Open, Cork Street, Mayfair, London UK
→ 2012 Matter, Curated by Sara Twomey: invited to curate group shows in the Exchange Tower in the Docklands, London UK
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Traveling to the USA in 1997 opened up a whole new perspective on painting for me, and it was there I taught myself to paint, I learnt on the job while making a large Mural for a hardware Shop in Ohio using the Trompe loeil technique, this continues to influence my paintings today.
For at least 10 years I was painting the landscape that was directly in my immediate surroundings, the council flat high rise in East London, UK where I was born offered me simplicity of shape, a box of depth and light in modular shapes. And the River Thames was a place I would go to paint directly as a practice of capturing light on the surface of water.
But I became stuck in painting the same landscapes of London over and over again.
Then in 2015 after a period of loss in my life I stopped using colour and the narratives of the landscape no longer resonated with me. But to my surprise I found black paint became a kind of therapy for me, I began experimenting with just Black paint, I could focus on how it captures light and I became more interested in how it physically captured light and has a spaciousness, as opposed to illustrating the light on the landscape.
I then recalled how In the period 2006 to 2009 I started working at Science Ltd as Studio Assistant Manager for the Artist Damien Hirst. I was in charge of paint finishes, colours and finding new surfaces, it was so exciting where I explored many types of materials that opened up my knowledge of many types of materials. This experience along with my interest in the Cubists and Constructivists directly influenced my own work.
I am now currently working on new Paintings and have started including the colour gold, using foil, sand and fiber to create many dimensions in Light. I have Painting Commissions underway and, I continually experiment to develop and push my painting in new ways. I also exhibit in Local and international group shows, I recently participated in a group Exhibition at the Citadel Museum Art Gallery in Dover UK.
Abstraction enables me to breakdown information and empty out narrative, to explore structure and memory to find my own language.The Black paint is teaching me all about light, it is a great spacious colour too almost like a void. Its surface is always changing in brightness as it reacts to light. There is the desire to fix the now into an organised pattern, but the light shifts constantly expressing the inevitability of change. The paintings are never static as they are interacting with patterns and symbols on the surface of the paint. As the Gold series develops the shapes are too, I started with two dimensions, now I am painting three dimensions and I feel there other more dimensions to discover! The pushing and pulling of the light forwards and backwards causes structure to appear and disappear.
