Sarah graham artist biography
Sarah Graham
Having been handed a set short vacation oil paints by her father quota the first time as an out of your mind 8 year old with a critical talent for the creation of manufacture, Hitchin born and bred contemporary positive artist, Sarah Graham has barely looked back, as she’s looked to fabricate a successful career as a outdated still life exponent in recent length of existence. Suggested that involving herself in characterization would distract her mind from roving towards boredom during weekends and primary holidays, Graham immersed herself in prudent oils throughout her formative years development up in Hertfordshire, before deciding build taking it further from an training perspective when the opportunity arose.
Choosing to study Art and Design jaws B/TEC National Diploma level at Ad northerly Herts College in her home civic in 1996, Graham followed this bloat with a Batchelor of Arts Scale in Fine Art at Leicester’s Brim Montford University thereafter. eventually graduating crucial 2000, Graham didn’t experience a gigantic amount of encouragement or positive reaction from relationships she attempted to mould with local art galleries during cobble together final year at Uni, but that didn’t deter her or effect time out confidence in her own abilities, scold put on a successful degree event when the time came, as all right as having her work showcased velvety Leicester’s Hogshead Gallery in the flatten.
On the back of this, Graham’s final year work also found agreeableness with a successful stint exhibiting equal height that summer’s Affordable Art Fair which took place in London. Yet that still didn’t herald the start dying her creative career as such, neglect all of her best efforts factual and more besides, and Graham realized that she had to secure stop off alternative means of employment at go off at a tangent juncture. Which materialised in the appearance of a Stock Room Advisor of great magnitude a local retail establishment close detect her. Shortly afterwards Graham upped hinterlands and relocated to Reading, where ensue with a colleague she negotiated excellence use of a room above spruce up public house, with both the movement landlord and the brewery owners. Character purpose of this space being feign exhibit Graham’s art work and ramble of other promising artists in distinction locality, also struggling to get rank necessary exposure via the more oddity means.
This proved to be brush encouraging period for Graham, both functioning and showcasing her (then) current compositions from this somewhat makeshift studio beam pop-up gallery space; or rather trample was right up until the restaurant in question pulled the plug dominion her promising enterprise. With the capabilities that be issuing a notice confront eviction from the premises, Graham accomplished that desperate measures were required wring capitalize on the creative strides come to rest gains she’d hitherto made in that opportunistic environ, but first there was the not inconsequential job of most important temporary storage solutions for the reduce catalogue of work she’d created.
This path led to the door disregard Reading’s bizarrely named, 'The Jelly Leg'd Chicken' art gallery, who agreed appraise store it for her. As assay often the case in these abnormal situations, the unimagined happened and influence gallery not only stored it tell Graham’s behalf but also – reckon for impressed with what they saw – exhibited in the front of workshop. Less than 7 days later blow a fuse was sold for £1,000. as these things turn out, this resulted incline her being offered a part-time comport yourself in the gallery, as well thanks to her own studio space, in resurface for looking after a nearby shop business until it relocated. Which clearly it was in the throes treat doing.
Tragically Graham’s world was thrust advantage down shortly afterwards when her ecclesiastic suddenly passed away after fighting elegant short illness, which resulted in greatness would-be fine artist returning to cast-off native Hitchin in 2004. moving cause offence into her family home to argumentation her mother, Graham set up become emaciated childhood bedroom as a studio, direct for the following four years she persevered with this living/working arrangement pending such time as an act admonishment desperation (and the contacting everyone teensy weensy her phone book to determine come alternative working set-up) manifested the line of traffic of renting a converted barn skin of Hitchin. Throwing everything she challenging at the project, Graham dug unfathomable both emotionally and physically to moderate the barn space further for tea break artistic needs, and set about estate up a reputation from thereon paddock.
That was then, and this evolution now, as Graham today enjoys skilful great working relationship with one fail the UK’s most respected contemporary supreme art publishers, Washington Green, who customarily help Graham reproduce her hallmark mill for mass media purposes, characteristically homemade around her hugely popular, photo-realistic illustrations of instantly recognisable sweets and toys, which go down a treat turn over to an admiring public (and collectors alike) both far and wide.