Artist Profile - Sara Hayward MA (RCA) - Elle Series

Elle 17
Elle 18
Elle 20
Elle 23
Elle 38
Elle 16
Elle 39
Elle 71
Elle 45
Elle: 109
Elle 75
Elle 51
Elle 19
Elle 27
Elle 15
Elle 28
Elle 29
Elle 50
Elle 49
Elle 60
Elle: 110
Elle 36
Elle 21
Elle 33
Elle 77
Elle 48
Elle 61
Elle 52

Elle 17

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 18

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 20

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Price: £595 Plus Delivery

Elle 23

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Price: £595 Plus Delivery

Elle 38

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 16

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Price: £595 Plus Delivery

Elle 39

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Price: £595 Plus Delivery

Elle 71

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 45

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31 cm framed

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle: 109

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 47 x 67cm framed

Year: 2021

Price: £995 Plus Delivery

Elle 75

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Price: £595 Plus Delivery

Elle 51

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Price: £595 Plus Delivery

Elle 19

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Price: £595 Plus Delivery

Elle 27

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Price: £595 Plus Delivery

Elle 15

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 28

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Price: £595 Plus Delivery

Elle 29

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 50

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 49

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 60

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Price: £595 Plus Delivery

Elle: 110

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 47 x 67cm framed

Year: 2021

Price: £995 Plus Delivery

Elle 36

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 21

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 33

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 77

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 48

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Price: £595 Plus Delivery

Elle 61

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

Elle 52

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Price: £595 Plus Delivery

Elle 17

Medium: acrylic on paper

Measurements: 38 x 31cm framed

Year: 2020

Price: £595 plus delivery

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About Sara Hayward MA (RCA) - Elle Series
Artist Statement

Elle 17
Elle 18
Elle 20
Elle 23
Elle 38
Elle 16
Elle 39
Elle 71
Elle 45
Elle: 109
Elle 75
Elle 51
Elle 19
Elle 27
Elle 15
Elle 28
Elle 29
Elle 50
Elle 49
Elle 60
Elle: 110
Elle 36
Elle 21
Elle 33
Elle 77
Elle 48
Elle 61
Elle 52
Elle 17
Elle 18
Elle 20
Elle 23
Elle 38
Elle 16
Elle 39
Elle 71
Elle 45
Elle: 109
Elle 75
Elle 51
Elle 19
Elle 27
Elle 15
Elle 28
Elle 29
Elle 50
Elle 49
Elle 60
Elle: 110
Elle 36
Elle 21
Elle 33
Elle 77
Elle 48
Elle 61
Elle 52

Biography

Born in Worcestershire, Sara Hayward is a UK based artist. She studied fine art at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University, and printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London.

Sara finds inspiration from her travels abroad to the coasts of Europe as well as closer to home on the shores of Great Britain. Sara's artworks include abstract pieces, still life, seascapes as well as portraits.

Her expressive, painterly style is concerned with capturing the energy of her subject matter using a heightened colour palette and printmaking inspired mark making techniques. She has developed a personal use of heightened colour to represent the world around her, pushing the boundaries of traditional painting through printmaking inspired painting processes.

A suite of her still life etchings of Worcester Porcelain jugs and her portrait of BBC Antiques Road Show presenter Henry Sandon MBE hang on permanent display at the Museum of Royal Worcester. She is married to landscape painter Paul Powis.


Artist Statement

The human form is central to my current practise with female figures a present focus. The series Elle 1:1 000 000 celebrates and debates the female form and the inner strength of women around the world. The images are predominantly taken from newspaper cuttings with real life, distorted by media interpretation, given a vibrant captivating existence.


Working in a semi abstract way images gradually emerge and minimal detail is included with ambiguity essential and energetic mark making vital to the image making process. Fast-drying acrylic paints allow layers to build up and working on multiple images I move through a series of images simultaneously to retain a freshness and immediacy.  I like to use a limited palette and incorporate printmaking techniques into the paintings which are constructed using stencils and layered mark-making.


Using a limited palette a woman is described, portrayed in just a few deft painterly brushstrokes. Sensitively executed, she represents contemporary woman with no facial features necessary. Painterly brush marks are juxtaposed against hard edged brush marks and the negative spaces around the figure are given equal importance in the handling of paint which has been used expressively to capture the moment. The incidental mark making in the background give an energy to the “portrait”.