Lois Gardner Sabet

Lois Gardner Sabet is originally from the USA and now lives and works in Nottingham, UK. She is based in a studio at the artist-led space, Backlit Gallery.

She has an established practice as an abstract artist working with watercolor paint on large-scale papers. She saturates the paper with multiple layers of luminous color to create a sense of non-material space, wtih the illusion of a woven artifact. She is interested in how the language of textile crafts and processes are used as metaphors, and how she can translate these metaphors into two-dimensional artworks. She uses fine, traditional Japanese papers called "washi" , which can resemble silk, as well as thick handmade Indian khadi papers.

Lois works with various drawing media. She makes layered, large-scale drawings on Fabriano paper using a pencil and an eraser. These drawings are a result of her abiding interest in the energies and resulting shapes of geological and biological processes. She has also recently revived a practice using India ink on paper. She applies the ink with Japanese brushes, and also surgical scrub brushes - a legacy of a stint working in a Boston hospital. The drawings are made with quick gestural strokes that sometimes bring to mind Rorschach...

BA in Fine Arts
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Material Narratives
Group Exhibition in All Hallows Church
Lady Bay Arts Trail
Nottingham
18 - 19 May 2019