Sally is a painter born and raised in West Sussex.

Sally Pennington art exhibition

Sally’s recent landscape paintings of the Sussex countryside move between representation and abstraction. She uses a mixture of sketchbook drawings and paintings, photographs and imaginative reflections on the experience of being outside in the landscape to create them. They are painted in acrylics, along with inks, neocolour crayons and sometimes gold leaf.

She builds them up in layers, using techniques such as sanding, wiping off and scraping back the paint to allow previous layers to show through. Many of the paintings are created with a variety of different tools – brushes, palette knives, sticks, fingers – and techniques – flicking, sgraffito, stencilling and printing with paint.

Sally aims to capture not only the shapes and colours of the landscapes and seasons but also something of the sensations, emotions and memories associated with particular places and times.

She also creates installations of small works in different settings, currently on display at Bepton Church.