My marks recreate the feeling of being free, reflecting where I have been. I use marks to make a gesture, a movement. I want to show the life force of nature, growth or the effects of the weather.
Sally McLaren
Sally began exhibiting with the gallery in 2016.
Born in London in 1936, between 1956-9 she studied at Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, winning two painting prizes. She then studied at Central School of Art under Merlyn Ecans, Hans Tisdall & Alan Davie until 1961 when she proceeded to gain a French scholarship to study printmaking with S.W. Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris while becoming an original member of the Printmakers Council of Great Britain, returning to teach etching at Goldsmiths, Universtity of London between 1962-5. In 1970 she became a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers `7 engravers. She has exhibited widely since 1960 at Young Contemporaries London. Notable commissions include National Grid Art Collection, P&O Oriana Art Collection & Sainsbury’s Art Collection. Her work is in numerous public & private collections internationally including the V&A print collection, Ashmoleon Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Government Art Collection, Scottish Arts Council, Paintings in Hospitals Collection, London.
Bibliography:
David Buckman, Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945, 1998 & 2006, vol. 2, p.1031
Anthony Dyson, Printmaker’s Secrets, A&C Black, London 2009
Printmakers: The Directory, A&C Black, London, 2006
Fiona Robinson, Fifty Wessex Artists, Evolver books, 2006
Martin J. Hopkinson, No Day Without a Line, History of the Royal Society of Painter
Printmakers 1880-1999, Dorchester, 1999
Profile, Printmaking Today, London 1996
Originale Arsenale de Graveline (Catalogue), Paris, 1993
Essay: Peter Hacker and Duncan Scott, C20th Master Prints: Some Atelie
Silvie Turner, Sally McLaren The Response of Landscape, UK, 2010
Silvie Turner & Ruaridh Webster, In Search of Stillness, Limited edition, 2016