Artist Profile - Sara Hayward
La Mer IX
Medium: Acrylic on Cradled Wood Panel
Measurements: 65 x 50 cm framed
Year: 2023
Price: £1,150 plus delivery
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Biography
After Bournville School of Art, British artist painter Sara Hayward MA (RCA) studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University, and printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London. Her vibrant, colour filled paintings principally include still life seascape, figurative and landscape subject matter. Printmaking informs Sara’s painting process and the layering of vibrant mark making with a heightened colour palette create a unique and personal semiabstract response to her chosen subject matter. She likes to work in series on families of paintings exploring expressive mark making techniques as can seen with her still life genre and Iona inspired seascapes. At the outset of each new image on paper Sara is passionate about exploring composition, structure, drawing and spatial devices with the most successful reworked onto board.
Sara has held artist residencies at the Museum of Royal Worcester (and was commissioned to paint the portrait of curator and BBC Antiques Road Show host Henry Sandon MBE for the museum) and Winterbourne House & Garden, Birmingham University, which were both funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Sara’s paintings can be found in the permanent collections of Birmingham University, Worcester City Art Gallery, Jesus College, Cambridge, and the Museum of Royal Worcester. Further examples of her work can be seen on the Bridgeman Art Library website. Her work has been published as open and limited edition prints by Rosenstiel’s and have been available worldwide. Over the years Sara has exhibited widely in the United Kingdom and the USA, and taught at many art colleges including Epsom School of Art, Birmingham City University and Worcester University.
Sara is married to landscape painter Paul Powis.