Sarah Lord studied at Canterbury College of Art and Gloucestershire College of Art (Cheltenham) gaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art – Painting. She has exhibited widely throughout the South East and in London including the Cadogan Contemporary Summer Show, several years at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and the Royal Overseas League Annual Exhibition. Her work has been represented in The British Art Fair at the Royal College of Art and she has taken part in Battersea Art Fair.

The South East Arts Collection and Kent County Libraries and Museums Collection hold examples of Lord’s work.

Paddy Kitchen reporting for Country Life magazine on the RA Summer Exhibition 1992 found Sarah’s entry “poetic” and “rather beautiful“.

More recently, Sarah has exhibited in the NEAC Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, RA Summer Exhibition 2024, and open call shows at Linden Hall Studio, Deal, The Lido Stores, Margate, Irving Gallery, Oxford and Dover Road, Folkestone.

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Statement

Painting, drawing and collage are used in my practice to discover various forms of interpretation. Many of the works are relatively small in scale, the largest being approximately 60 x 60 cms. The paintings are comprised of thin washes of colour, layered and sometimes wiped or scrubbed, juxtaposed in places with more opaque paint and a linear, drawn structure.

Subjects are derived from familiar experiences with everyday objects, places or occurrences. By bringing observational and notional interpretations together and re-looking at the easily ignored, fleeting, mundane or throwaway and revisiting these encounters at the edge of abstraction, the works aspire to more than a depiction of formal structural elements. I hope to imbue them with a presence, significance and enough ambiguity of form to evoke alternative associations. To make them new.