I started my own ‘Art Club’ at around 8 years old, inviting my village friends to come and copy cartoon characters and share my felt tips! Then I won the school art prize at 11 and with my book voucher I bought a ‘How to draw book’. This was the beginning of my obsession with all things creative in life. I constantly thought about what I could create next, both 2D and 3D. I have always had this need within me to make art.
Formal training was Art and design at Trent College in Nottingham and a fine art degree at Edinburgh College of Art which unfortunately I never actually completed due to a life changing experience. I was attacked one night walking home from a life drawing class. This made me lose confidence and I returned home for a reset.
I worked for a textile company as a graphic designer for several years then set up my own design consultancy in Nottingham, employing several other designers to work with me. After meeting my husband I moved to Lincoln and brought up my three children. When my kids had flown the nest I went back to collage and trained as a silversmith in 2005 fulfilling my need for more learning.
Since then have spent many years sketching and painting my local Lincolnshire landscape and selling work on the East Coast of England. I work from my studio at home in Lincoln, painting, creating 3D art and silver and gold jewellery. I regularly teach painting and silversmithing workshops at ‘Indigo Crow’, an Art gallery in Lincoln that I helped to co-found and now run along side 8 other professional artists.
‘I love experimenting with landscape painting in different media; watercolour, handmade papers, acrylics and broken down textiles. My style has developed from a literal translation of the subject to a bold, more graphic representation. I first depict the view in sketchy scribbles of ink lines then I reawaken my drawings in either acrylic or watercolour, fabric, stitch and threads.
My paintings are versions of merging landscape, light and abstraction. In my vision I want lines and geometric shapes to intersect, layer together and create a sense of distance and depth.’
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Sally’s Links:
Instagram: skboldart
Website: sallykheng.co.uk