Artist’s statement

Artwork title: ‘After the rain’ | Artwork media: Watercolour and Gouache | Artwork dimensions: 200 x 285mm

Sarah Wood is a Wirral-based artist specializing in watercolour. She has written a number of magazine articles that have appeared in publications, including International Artist, Leisure Painter, and Paint, the magazine of the SAA.

March 2018: Exhibited with the SBA at Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid.
Apr 2016: Winner of St Cuthberts Mill Award, Society of Botanical Artists (SBA)  Exhibition London.
Sept 2015: Winner of Maureen Hinchcliffe Award, Wirral Society of Arts Exhibition.
Nov 2014: Exhibited at Palmengarten, Frankfurt.
May 2014: Winner of the Margaret Granger Memorial Silver Bowl at the SBA exhibition at Westminster Central Hall.
Apr 2014: Publication of commissioned article for Leisure Painter magazine.
Apr 2014: Winner of Schmincke Award at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours exhibition at the Mall Galleries.
Oct 2013: Finalist in the Caran D’Ache Competition at the Mall Galleries.
Aug 2012: Step by step article published in International Artist magazine.
Nov 2010: People’s Choice award in the “Simply and Best” competition, run in conjunction with Art Materials Live at the NEC in Birmingham.
Oct 2010: Finalist in International Artist Magazine, Still Life and Floral Competition.
July 2009: Highly Commended in the Artist of the Year Competition with the Society of All Artists.
May 2009: Paint magazine included Sarah as their Profiled Artist for the month, and her paintings of tulips was selected for the front cover.

Sarah is a member of the Society of Botanical Artists, Wirral Society of Arts, and Irby Artists’ Association.

I strive for representative and realistic images. I believe art should have the power to transform the commonplace into the exceptional. I look for beauty in the simplest subjects: foliage, grasses and raindrops.”

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