Sarah Ollerenshaw

Sarah Ollerenshaw's rise to success in the art world was almost immediate. Graduating from Birmingham University Sarah then took a postgraduate diploma at Christie's, which led on to a two year stint as artist in residence at a prep school in Fulham.

Her landscapes are drawn from her experiences whilst out walking around her beloved city countryside (as she calls it); London Parks. Her work heavily references the Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park amongst other London green spots and she has been known to venture further afield, up into North London on occasion.

Sarah's work is executed with an intensity and vigour using painterly bold marks, scratches and a range of palette knives. She is increasingly interested in how paint moves and how depending on its placement, colour can either sing or disappear. Her work is deceptively simple but on closer inspection the layering of the paint reveals the work involved. The tension between abstraction and a photographic edge is the desired effect with colourful, rhythmic poetry and balance of her style combined with the workmanship resulting in joyful paintings of artistic integrity.