Artist Profile - Sally Stafford

Meadow Edge 2
Wintering
Visitation
Soon the sun will shine
Before the Rainbow
Golden Meadow
Midsummer
Quickening

Meadow Edge 2

Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Measurements: 80 x 80 cm unframed

Price: £1,950 plus delivery

Wintering

Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Measurements: 80 x 80 cm unframed

Price: £1,950 plus delivery

Visitation

Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Measurements: 120 x 150 cm unframed

Price: £3,950 plus delivery

Soon the sun will shine

Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Measurements: 100 x 100 cm unframed

Price: £2,500 plus delivery

Before the Rainbow

Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Measurements: 100 x 120 cm unframed

Price: £2,650 plus delivery

Golden Meadow

Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Measurements: 100 x 120 cm unframed

Price: £2,650 plus delivery

Midsummer

Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Measurements: 100 x 100 cm unframed

Price: £2,500 plus delivery

Quickening

Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Measurements: 80 x 80 cm unframed

Price: £1,950 plus delivery

Meadow Edge 2

Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Measurements: 80 x 80 cm unframed

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Price: £1,950 plus delivery

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About Sally Stafford
Artist Statement

Meadow Edge 2
Wintering
Visitation
Soon the sun will shine
Before the Rainbow
Golden Meadow
Midsummer
Quickening
Meadow Edge 2
Wintering
Visitation
Soon the sun will shine
Before the Rainbow
Golden Meadow
Midsummer
Quickening

Biography

Sally Stafford is a mixed media painter of semi abstract, highly textured paintings inspired by the natural world. Her paintings are an emotional response and are moments of personal connection expressed on canvas. She uses a wide variety of media and enjoys the interaction between acrylics, spray paints, gold leaf and oil pastel. Her research usually involves extended stays or residencies in the places she’s travelled to. These include the Somerset wetlands in the UK, Spain (where she lived until 2020), Portugal, Bali and Scotland.

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.

Sally Stafford trained in fine art at Stroud School of Art and the University of the West of England in Bristol and she has been a professional artist since 2004. She has shown nationally and internationally at galleries and art fairs for 20 years. Her work is held in collections including The Wildlife Trusts and the University of Bristol in addition to private collections of individuals and organisations worldwide.


Artist Statement

What interests me is exploring places and the effects of time on these places. I think of the canvas as a living, growing thing. Layers of paint are poured, scratched into and over painted. Chance and accident are appreciated and included. Natural forms emerge and recede echoing the searching for a memory and the essence of a place and time.


I like to work in series with the seasons, recognising and celebrating the effects of time. A recurrent theme for me is Celtic mythology, particularly Summerland, the idea of a heaven to soothe the soul, and the eight stations of the Celtic year. My work is often more about a plant scape than a landscape accentuating the magic and symbolism of overlooked and forgotten spaces.