The tangled chaotic appearance of my garden and the subsequent play of light and shadows on flowers and plants can fragment images and make something that is very easy to understand seem quite absurd and abstract. Read more –>

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Sally Truman – Born 1960 UK

I feel that my future work is on the verge of becoming neither figurative nor abstract. I am becoming more concerned with the texture of the oil paint on the canvas.

My paintings are built up in layers and transparent glazes are applied to allow light to radiate from within the painting. The process of scraping and wiping down the paint surface, repainting and the subsequent scarring of the canvas becomes a metaphor for life.”

Truman’s new style is heavily worked brush strokes which dominate her canvas, like a calligraphic mark. They are all inherent markings, in the same way that punctuation is inherent to a written page. There is a deep luminosity in her paintings and the texture of the paint has an almost sculptured feeling. The brush work in these new paintings have a seductive response upon many viewers who stretch out and softly trail their fingers over canvases, gently tracing faint lines so delicate that they are hardly visible, veiled under layers of paint and washes or they can be pulsing in the foreground.

In 2005 she exhibited with Frances Roden Fine Art London and moved back to the UK permanently in 2010 to exhibit her work through other London galleries. In 2020 the covid pandemic put a stop to exhibiting finished work and brought about the setting of a new life/work balance. Truman found new inspiration in her garden which has a depth of field, light and dark, movement and above all colour.

Lucy Holden, contemporary art critic in New York, once described Sally Truman’s paintings “…as an alluring journey into the artist’s forbidden psychic.”

Style: Figurative, Seascape & Landscape