I create scenarios, stimulate associations, play with perceptions in the mental sandbox of the canvas.  I always work from an idea, preconceived visually and often sketched in color.  I let the ideas morph once again in the painting, distilling their essence and freezing them in time.  The process involves equal focus on forms and spatial fields, with a search for synthesis, as in a poem or song. The rational precision of hard-edged elements is juxtaposed with the random quality of unruly organicism.  The palette is intentionally cinematic and enhanced. Themes occur in a circular way, and I think of my paintings as stills from a dream sequence, postcards from a timeless place. I am easily mesmerized and have a high tolerance for slow, repetitive images and trance-like music. I am never bored or without subject matter as there seems to be endless possibility in this kind of meandering outlook on the visual landscape. The fictional realm of the canvas is escape for me and also adventure–I don’t paint what I see so much as what I want to see. Although my work is categorized as Abstraction in the broadest sense, I don’t consider it to be opposed to realism. It’s just another way of processing the illusion we know as “reality.”

Sarah’s Website: www.sarahwilkinsart.com

Sarah’s Studio in Building 3 of Golden Belt: Studio 3-139