Background
Sarah Gooder is an artist living and working in Yorkshire, UK. Sarah works primarily in watercolour and ink. She is self-taught, having rediscovered drawing when she studied for an Architecture degree as a mature student. Following her degree Sarah worked in different roles including architecture, garden design and exhibition design. She has been painting and drawing full time for the past five years.
Process
Working quickly allows a spontaneous, energetic and immediate response to the subject and Sarah works to preserve that initial sketch, those first marks that begin to define the subject, within several layers of drawing and painting.
She also likes to work with multiple, careful layers, that gradually build up tone and texture and really establish a connection with the subject, after many days of observation and painting.
Artist statement
I started painting with watercolour and it continues to be a medium I enjoy, allowing me to find patterns and textures, layering and blending colours and shapes over eachother. I like that the first marks or layers are left behind and can’t always be concealed. It shows the human hand behind the painting, my initial responses and the natural mark-making that happens as the hand responds to what the eye sees.
Exhibitions
2018 – Childwickbury Arts Fair, Hertfordshire
2019 – Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Competition, Bankside Gallery London; Childwickbury Arts Fair, Hertfordshire
2020 -2021 – New Light Exhibition, Scarborough Art Gallery, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Carlisle, Biscuit Factory Newcastle, Bankside Gallery London
2021 – Group Exhibition ‘Cats and Dogs’, Gallery 68, Ulverston; Childwickbury Arts Fair
2022 – Childwickbury Arts Fair
2023 – Royal Institute Painters in Watercolours 2023, Mall Galleries, London
Please note that all copyright remains with the artist and images may be reproduced by the artist and sold as limited edition prints or other printed media.