Sally Burch is an abstract painter and printmaker with a BA (Hons) degree in Contemporary Fine Art from London’s Central St Martins (2016), after initially studying Graphic Design at Brighton School of Art. At the start of her life as a painter she fought against her graphic roots, but now she fully embraces those skills and influences to stir the ‘paint pot’ with ever evolving ideas from her fine art education.

Her art practice is influenced by natural landscapes and phenomena that she personally experience both physically and virtually. Working with sketches and digital media, she builds up a catalogue of simplified references, motifs and colours, that she converts into her own pictorial language of pattern, form and pigment.

Colour features strongly in her work and she considers herself a colourist. She is interested in the story of colour in art, the use of colour to express feelings and energy and colour as communication. Conceptually, she uses the division of colour in the pictorial space to question power, boundaries and value.

She works mainly on wooden panels and uses layers of colour pigment suspended in polymers or varnish of varying opacity. She uses ink to allow the substrate to show through. The process symbolises the overlaying of experiences relating to time and memory.

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