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ARTIST STATEMENT

The energy of landscape is at the heart of the painting of Sally Stokes. That hint of mystery, the strange ecological relationships that nurture our sense of being human and our sense of transformation. This energy particularly comes from the Australian landscapes — the annual trips to the desert — drawing and absorbing this world — removed even from the internet — days on the river around the Hawkesbury and the incredibly diverse interrelationships of the Hawkesbury sandstone country’s complexity — more diverse than the Amazon acre to acre.

Then there are the Mountains and the Coast. Always an exploration, always pushing colour — the push and pull of composition and line that, when absorbed, takes you to a different place — that strange space between the viewer and the painting that excites our emotions and stirs the heart!

BIO

Sally Stokes is a Sydney based abstract landscape artist who works from her studio amongst the angophoras in Dural and her boatshed studio in a remote part of the Hawkesbury River.

Sally has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Masters of Analytical Psychology. She studied art at Hornsby TAFE and East Sydney TAFE (The National Art School).

She has had twenty four solo shows and numerous group shows. She has been a Finalist in the Sulman prize and the Salon des Refusés and her work has been acquired by many private collectors in Australia and internationally. She is also represented in Public Collections: Newcastle Art Gallery, Artbank, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre and Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. Sally was the winner of the Muswellbrook Art Prize, 2021.