Sapna Shah

Sapna’s Fine Art practice is driven by formal, spatial and sensual concerns in painting, with a key excitement and fascination of the potential of colour. Sapna enjoys the process of working with a selected colour palette (a warm and cool of each primary, and a white) and exploring the seemingly endless variations of hue, temperature and luminosity of colours which she can create using this. Hand mixing her own oil paints from powdered pigments allows her to explore the intensities and depths of colour in her visually meticulous paintings. The colours that Sapna mixes may be arrived at through an experimental approach to the mixing process, but can also be a very focussed and prescribed mixture for a particular colour/ spectrum of colours which may have been inspired by things from the physical world around her, a memory of an experience, or informed by colours already in her painting. Sapna likes to have a slow-brewing and fluid approach to image making, where formal relationships that emerge can influence and dictate future pictorial elements. The ambitious scale of her colour led paintings allows for an immersive and almost meditative viewing experience.

2014-2018 Fine Art BA at Newcastle University

2013-2014 Fine Art Foundation Course at The Royal Drawing School

July 2018 ‘Newcastle University London Show’, Unit 2 Copeland Park, London, UK

June 2018 ‘Newcastle University Degree Show’, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

December 2017 ‘Interim’, Ex-Libris Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

July 2017 ‘2 ½ Paintings’, Academy of Fine Arts Munster, Germany

May 2016 ‘Testing grounds’, Hoults Yard, Newcaste, UK

May 2015 ‘Fail Better’, NewBridge Project Space, Newcastle, UK

November 2015 ‘Painting Strand’, 36 Lime Street, Newcastle, UK

October 2014 ‘The Human Emporium’, The Welcome Collection, London, UK

June 2014 ‘Royal Drawing School Foundation Show’, Trinity Buoy Warf, London, UK