Artist Profile - Sara Huxley
Top Banana!
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 60 x 60 cm unframed
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Oysters anyone?
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 60 x 60 cm unframed
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Epicurean Days
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 100 x 100 cm unframed
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Leftovers
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 100 x 100 cm unframed
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A table story
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 100 x 100 cm unframed
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What a load of scallops
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 90 x 90 cm unframed
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Soho Table
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 60 x 60 cm unframed
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Wonky
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 60 x 60 cm unframed
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Crisp N Dry
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 60 x 60 cm unframed
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Speciality Mango
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 100 x 100 cm unframed
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Langoustines
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 90 x 90 cm unframed
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Figs and Blue Curacao
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 100 x 100 cm unframed
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Sharing Plates
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 90 x 90 cm unframed
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Top Banana!
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Measurements: 60 x 60 cm unframed
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Biography
Sara Huxley is a contemporary painter, based in Warwickshire UK, who has a particular passion for collage. Cleverly, she weaves her textiles background into her paintings, creating a tapestry of colours, textures, and patterns, often akin to a fabulous fabric design. Her works are a celebration of mixed media, utilising layers of acrylic paint, inks, and collage crafted from printed newspapers. The result is a rich visual experience that invites the viewer to explore the intricacies of each piece.
Sara finds her muse in the world of gastronomy, inspired by the conviviality of dinner parties, fine dining, social gatherings and the joy of shared meals. Her subject matter predominantly revolves around still life, offering a semi-abstract interpretation of moments in time, capturing the energy of a lively dinner party or the intimacy of a family meal, such as breakfast or informal lunch. Sara is also interested in the bold shapes and patterns of the flower heads and petals and the overlaying of colours, both contrasting and subtly graded.
Sara works by building up layers, each contributing to the overall narrative of the piece, and her paintings are only completed when the artist feels the essence of the moment has been captured.
Using warm palettes, she celebrates the imperfect beauty found in organic shapes, deliberately painting pots and bowls with irregularities and peculiarities. Negative cut-outs mirror their positive counterpart shapes to produce clean and balanced compositions.
Alongside creating her own work, Sara had a teaching career in the arts, most recently at the prestigious King Edward VI High School for Girls in Edgbaston, before she became a full-time professional artist in 2021.
Sara has exhibited in galleries across the UK and has shown at Art in Action, Oxford and Affordable Art Fairs in London. She was an exhibition finalist at the Broadway Arts Festival in the Cotswolds in 2024.
Artist Statement
My collages are created by ripping and cutting painted newspaper, alongside paint and inks. I want the pieces to have a clean minimalist feel. I'm interested in stripping the subject back to its most basic elements, the negative spaces being as important as the positive.