Sally Stafford

“My paintings are an emotional response to the natural world as I experience it – they are moments of highly personal connection expressed on canvas”

Sally’s immersive, evocative works team with life and movement. You can almost hear and smell the meadows, woodlands and wetlands that she depicts, blending layers and textures built up with paint, ink, pigment and wax. There is a shimmering depth and subtle power in her work that invites the viewer to engage with what they see – to feel the perpetual cycle of weather and seasons, from the delicate play of new blossom, to the glow of autumn leaves and the latent, frozen geometry of winter trees.

 For Sally, the process of painting is both visceral and meditative. She is not simply painting her natural subjects, but ‘growing’ them: propagating a living image with intuition and spontaneity.

 Trained at Stroud School of Art and Bower Ashton, Bristol, Sally has exhibited widely across the UK and Europe.   

Sally’s work features in our exhibition Showing for Autumn