Sarah Fenwick at Athens Open Art Show
English-Cypriot artist Sarah Fenwick to exhibit in the group show Athens Open Art.
The London-based art collective ArtNumber 23 has selected Sarah Fenwick’s artwork ‘Now’ for the Athens Open Art group exhibition.
The exhibition’s opening event is on Friday, November 26th, 2021, and it continues until Thursday 2nd of December.
The exhibition hours are 16:00 to 20:00. Free admission.
Gallery information: Dim. Eginitou 8, Thiseio, Athens, Greece.
About ‘Now’
Now is an oil painting on archival paper with dimensions 100 x 140 cm.
In this piece, blue contrasts with orange and semi-representational elements contrast with abstract shapes.
Sarah Fenwick comments: “The now is the only kind of time we can fully experience. I’m exploring the fine balance between contrasts like negative space and form and how contrasts capture our attention. I want the painting to engage the viewer in the now, in the elusive milliseconds that make up our experiences.”
Sarah Fenwick was born in Kenya in 1966 to a Greek-Cypriot mother and English father. Her background as a jazz singer inspires her paintings with musical themes and she is keen to transform the big ideas of life and the Universe into visual art.
Sarah came to art in her early 50’s, so she keeps busy making up for the lost time. Her education includes private art classes, voracious studying and practising, informal training with art mentors and self-teaching.
For more information, visit www.sarahfenwickart.com.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My art is about life’s beauty and meaning.
I’m interested in the beauty of synchronicity and creative energy that the cosmos pours into form, shape, matter, ether, time, and space, and their simultaneously painful and joyful transformation into ancient and new objects.
I paint portraits, landscapes, florals, still life, and abstracts.
In a portrait, I seek the subject’s soul and energy.
In a landscape, I explore nature’s ecstatic vibrations.
Still life is a chance to reflect on how I feel about the moment.
Abstracts are an opportunity to channel the energy around me into a visual representation of the life force.
My work is in acrylics on paper and canvas. Acrylics dry fast so I can work in short bursts, taking time in between to consider what is emerging.
Jazz music is one of my inspirations for its spontaneity, improvisational energy, and beauty.
I explore artistic crossovers, where different elements become part of a whole performance.
The crossroads where a face becomes part of a landscape and a tree or building become part of a dance.
Where the light becomes a spotlight and you can hear music and rhythm in the flow of the paint.
Where the paintbrush becomes an improvisational voice singing about a moment that brings together past, future and present in a new yet familiar way.