Sarah Faulkes Art BaHons Artist

 “Right from early art school, I wanted to use the body to create a sense of inner relationships with the audience.”  

Helen Chadwick

From  a  very  early  age  I have always had an  interest in colour, tone and form  which  lead  to  creating drawings  and paintings. Most of this work was self-taught. It   was not until I was thirty five that I returned to Education, and went to Paston Sixth form College. It was there that I completed my Alevels in Art and Design and Photography. Then I  turned to NUA (Norwich University  of the Arts) and completed my Ba  Hons  Fine  Art.  I  have  continued to  create art, for  myself  and have  continued  to  feel  my way  through  to  a  more  cohesive  whole.  £

“The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.”
― Wassily Kandinsky

As  artist  I  enjoy immersing  myself in  whatever    medium  feels correct  for  the  piece at hand. I find that following my instincts can help my creativity flow. My process I have realised is one of looking and digesting, and creating from a space of remembered images either from life or from deliberately looking  at  primary  and  secondary  sourced  materials  created from internal fluids. This  can  then lead  to a  mixing  of  real forms with created imagined forms. I follow where my imagery takes me as artist, as through  investigation I am find  a truer form of my own practice.  

  “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.” 

 Paul Klee 1920.

  As artist, I am inspired by looking, seeing and observing my surroundings whether it be a landscape, a seascape, a cloud or looking internally at body fluids. Visiting exhibitions is another extension of seeing, all is internalised digested. and released through the medium of creating.

As  with  all  artists, I  am never  satisfied  with my work and  I strive  to  create the  elusive,  the  perfect  the  piece that  I am  ultimately  content  with.  I  believe  that if  that  ever  happens  I  will stop  creating,  because  it  is  this  need  that  pushes  me  forward.    

“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children’s games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. …That question (why do you paint?) has been put to me before and my answer was, “To give terror a face.” But it’s more than that. I paint because I can’t help it.”

Paula Rego

“I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.”

Sonia Delaunay

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
Pablo Picasso 

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