Sarah Graham Original

... Sarah’s work has since explored many different themes, often as a result of photographs taken on her extensive travels. Her subject matter has included landscape, seascape and cityscape, and of course portraiture.

She began to focus on toys and sweets soon after graduating from her degree course. The overriding obsession in all of Sarah’s work has always been colour. As a newly graduated artist, with limited resources and also limited space, she needed something small and portable, but also brightly coloured in order to continue to explore this in her work. The toys and sweets offered the perfect solution. They provided an endless source of visually stimulating material for original work that was cheap, portable and appealing. Since becoming a published artist, her work has continued to centre on this theme.

The process of producing a new original painting for Sarah Graham is a very long, complicated and involved one. The first stage is photographing the subject matter. Once this is done, she picks the most suitable photograph to work from, presumably the one with the best composition, and colour depth and representation.

From then on everything is created by hand eye, brush and paint. The first sketches are done in yellow acrylic paint, followed by a full colour acrylic underpainting, before the final and lengthiest stage of painting the entire piece in oils.

Speaking exclusively to MyArtBroker, Sarah said “Since becoming published my original work has become far more sought after, due at least in part I hope to people’s appreciation of the time and effort it takes to create each piece”