Sarah Spackman RBA ROI

Sarah Spackman is a still life oil painter. Born in 1958, Sarah is a contemporary figurative artist known for her employment of delicate and subtle colours. She works from a studio in Oxford that was once a punt building workshop.

Her practice focuses on the principle that good drawing is the basis of good painting and that colour should be used to enhance the organisation and definition of observed space and form. Sarah works in a considered way, with close observation. Her paintings have a quiet presence serving powerfully to engage the viewer.

Sarah says of her work: ‘The objects I paint are everyday things, often organic forms from the garden or allotment. The space around the subject, the space in the painting itself, becomes a sort of stage, and the painting develops through the rigorous finding of the spatial relationships and forms across the picture’.

Sarah trained at Byam Shaw School of Art, London and graduated from Camberwell School of Art in 1981. She was elected as a member of the Royal Society of British Artists RBA in 2019, and a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters ROI, in 2022. She is also a member of the Small Paintings Group and the Oxford Art Society. Sarah’s work is in many private collections world wide as well as the collection of the Allied Irish Bank. Her work has also been selected for the Jerwood Drawing Competition, the NEAC, the ROI, the RBA and the Discerning Eye Exhibitions. Sarah exhibits regularly with several galleries throughout the UK.

The Thackeray Gallery has represented Sarah Spackman since 2023.

You can see more of Sarah’s work on her webpage: https://www.sarahspackman.com/