Born in 1969, Sarah Ewing was brought up in Hertfordshire, where she still lives today. She has been fascinated with drawing and painting from early childhood. At just three years of age, she presented her father with an accurate and fully 3D sketch of a pram.
Sarah's background is in formal portraiture, where she has honed her talent for detail and technical excellence, using many of the traditional techniques favoured by the Old Masters.
Her latest body of work steps away from portraiture into the world of abstract expressionism. Her collection addresses the tension between the formal lines of geometric shape and the movement and energy of colour, light and texture. Her work purposefully has no narrative, enabling the viewer to create their own and in doing so, interact directly with the painting. To create each piece, Sarah employs a wide variety of media including plaster, paste, gesso, resin and semi-precious stones.
In 2006, Sarah Ewing's work was identified by Turner Prize Winning artists Gilbert & George, who praised her for excellent technical accomplishment. Sarah has exhibited widely, including shows at The Mall Galleries, London and with The Society of Women Artists. In 2008 her work was shortlisted for the BP Portrait Awards.
