Lot 22 , Sally Cole, (b.1949), Walking West, 2018, oil on canvas, 122 x 152 cm

Sally Cole
(b.1949)
Walking West, 2018
oil on canvas
122 x 152 cm
£1,200-1,800
Sally Cole is a painter and printmaker dedicated to responding directly to and recording the landscape, in particular the earth and the sky and where they meet. She works outdoors in all weathers, often revisiting the same location in different seasons to develop each work. “For the past eight years I have spent at least two months of the year drawing and painting in Pembrokeshire, working as close to the edge of the cliffs as I can safely get.”
?Cole has undertaken several important residencies, including in 2019 with the Earthskin Trust in New Zealand, where she spent a month in isolation on Piha beach, on the North Island; the Trust has invited her to return, when possible, to continue her Embodied Land project. In 2020, she was artist in residence at Oriel y Parc, St Davids, Pembrokeshire and in September will take up her residence at Cill Rialaig Project, Ireland, the most western point in Europe.

“I seem to be drawn to the western points of the compass. In Pembrokeshire, New Zealand and Ireland. When walking the Pembrokeshire coastal path, I find I gravitate to the west. I sit on the cliffs to draw always looking west.”

Cole, who studied at Chelsea School of Art in London, is now based in Hastings, where she has a studio in the heart of Hastings Country Park.