Sally Newton?s work speaks to ancestral connections to land, using simplified marks and reduced colours. She studied B.A. (Hons) in Fine Art (Printmaking) at Cambridge School of Art, and now works with oils and drawing materials.

Her studio is in Hampshire, though she is often found amongst the landscape working directly. In 2021, from an artist residency at an organic farm on the Wiltshire and Hampshire border, emerged the abstract landscape paintings that she has developed since.

The artist?s intention is to seek marks that convey the experience of inhabiting the landscape. Looking for dynamic and visually expressive ways of communicating, her paintings work to capture the stillness of a place too