Foreword
Sarah Graham's work is uniquely beautiful. Her twisting, flowing, sensuous flower forms, executed with a restrained elegance yet a contemporary brio and layered with ravishing colour, have an echo of Isnik art. Some have an even more distant orient form which influences her pale delicate drawing, while others, executed in bold chiaroscuro, recall Japanese ink paintings.
Here is an artist who knows her metier intimately and faultlessly, and who has studied her subject with diligence and devotion. Sarah's paintings and drawings are a delight to the eye, mind and heart.
- Nicky Haslam
Quotations
“Her wild and wonderful studies have a basis of intense observation. Sarah has taken her passion for plants to a new level, dramatically pushing the envelope of botanical art.”
-Dr Shirley Sherwood
“Sarah Graham's pictures are bold, brave, and beautiful, and look fantastic in contemporary or traditional settings, I highly recommend them.”
-Jane Churchill
“Sarah's work transports me into another world, where nature appears dangerous, alluring and inviting. This happens so quickly that it is disarming and it is a tribute to her unique technical skill. Where else can I be so bowled over?”
-Crispin Odey
“We discovered Sarah Graham over a year ago and absolutely love her work. We have many of her pieces and also invited her to be artist in residence in Greece which was a great success”
-Mrs Leonardo Goulandris
“[When I first met Sarah Graham] I instantly liked her, but had no idea of her talent, revealed here by these wonderfully fluid, giant scale plant studies. Her vegetables are sprouting with vigorous life, dashed down with a confident stroke and watery palette. They would have a terrific effect on any room in which they were shown.”
-Jessica Hayns, The World of Interiors
“Sarah Graham’s drawings are wonderfully bold and vigorous, sometimes heraldic, sometimes like plantforms escaping from a William Morris tapestry twisting and bursting into lusty life, the palette strange and subtle.”
-Christopher Gibbs
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Purple Emporer
Coloured ink (2008)
155 x 120 cm
SOLD
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Pievescola Artichoke
Ink on paper (2008)
156 x 120 cm
SOLD
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Sienna Artichoke
Ink on paper (2008)
133 x 102 cm
SOLD
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Suvera Artichoke
Graphite on paper (2008)
163 x 113 cm
SOLD
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Sunflower I
Graphite on paper (2008)
166 x 116 cm
SOLD
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Sunflower II
Graphite on paper (2008)
166 x 116 cm
SOLD
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Sunflower III
(2008)
166 x 116 cm
SOLD
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Split Tulips
Chinese Ink (2008)
148 x 122 cm
SOLD
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Umbria Artichoke
Ink on paper (2008)
120 x 156 cm
SOLD
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King Protea
(2008)
148 x 122 cm
SOLD
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Big Fir
Pastel (2008)
147 x 120 cm
SOLD
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Iris Frieze
Charcoal (2008)
99 x 300 cm
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Lilies
Charcoal (2008)
110 x 158 cm
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Leander
Chinese ink
148 x 107 cm
SOLD
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Arum Lilies
Charcoal (2008)
110 x 158 cm
SOLD
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Amaryllis I
Pencil and oil (2007)
113 x 79 cm
SOLD
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Amaryllis II
Pencil and oil (2007)
113 x 79 cm
SOLD
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Amaryllis III
Pencil and oil (2008)
113 x 79 cm
SOLD
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Amaryllis IV
Pencil and oil (2008)
113 x 79 cm
SOLD
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Villesum Leander II
Chinese ink on paper (2008)
69 x 50 cm
SOLD
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Villesum Leander I
Chinese ink on paper (2008)
69 x 50 cm
SOLD
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Orchid Pavum
Chinese ink on paper (2008)
79 x 59 cm
SOLD
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Lilies Triptych II
Charcoal (2008)
98 x 196 cm
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Lilies Triptych I
Charcoal (2008)
98 x 196 cm
SOLD
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Pineapple
Charcoal on paper (2008)
79 x 61 cm
SOLD
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Paradise Flowers
Charcoal on paper (2008)
79 x 61 cm
SOLD
Foreword
Sarah Graham's work is uniquely beautiful. Her twisting, flowing, sensuous flower forms, executed with a restrained elegance yet a contemporary brio and layered with ravishing colour, have an echo of Isnik art. Some have an even more distant orient form which influences her pale delicate drawing, while others, executed in bold chiaroscuro, recall Japanese ink paintings.
Here is an artist who knows her metier intimately and faultlessly, and who has studied her subject with diligence and devotion. Sarah's paintings and drawings are a delight to the eye, mind and heart.
- Nicky Haslam
Quotations
“Her wild and wonderful studies have a basis of intense observation. Sarah has taken her passion for plants to a new level, dramatically pushing the envelope of botanical art.”
-Dr Shirley Sherwood
“Sarah Graham's pictures are bold, brave, and beautiful, and look fantastic in contemporary or traditional settings, I highly recommend them.”
-Jane Churchill
“Sarah's work transports me into another world, where nature appears dangerous, alluring and inviting. This happens so quickly that it is disarming and it is a tribute to her unique technical skill. Where else can I be so bowled over?”
-Crispin Odey
“We discovered Sarah Graham over a year ago and absolutely love her work. We have many of her pieces and also invited her to be artist in residence in Greece which was a great success”
-Mrs Leonardo Goulandris
“[When I first met Sarah Graham] I instantly liked her, but had no idea of her talent, revealed here by these wonderfully fluid, giant scale plant studies. Her vegetables are sprouting with vigorous life, dashed down with a confident stroke and watery palette. They would have a terrific effect on any room in which they were shown.”
-Jessica Hayns, The World of Interiors
“Sarah Graham’s drawings are wonderfully bold and vigorous, sometimes heraldic, sometimes like plantforms escaping from a William Morris tapestry twisting and bursting into lusty life, the palette strange and subtle.”
-Christopher Gibbs
