Sarah Morshead

Sarah Morshead is a contemporary painter. Her work is inspired by compositions of colour, space and shape that she experiences in her daily life. Recent paintings are concerned with different colour palettes and techniques used by painters throughout history. Most recently she has been working with the colours used in Byzantine painting. She is also enjoying exploring how lines and marks can evolve into more solid forms/planes within the painting.
Washing Line and Mandolin

A Gentle Francis Bacon

The Art of Balance

Exploration In Muted Colours

Untitled

The Cow Jumps Over The Moon

Pink 'L' Against Yellow

Blue Submersion

Crazy Gorse

Energy 1
Detail (Untitled)

Self Portrait As An Alien
These paintings are the concentrate of my day to day experiences. Most of the finished works are started in an intuitive way. The paintings are the last stage of an intense process of sketching, studying, and filtering information from my surroundings and life experiences. Painting can express things that we don’t have words to describe. For me it is about exploring and trying to understand what is around me, and then pushing on into new, unknown territories. Matisse sums it up when he said (1942): ‘I hope I’ll reach the point where I’m out of my depth, and then the only way out will be to venture into the unknown.’
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