Sarah Stokes

Hello and welcome to my artworks!

I am a musical artist who paints in an intuitive and improvisatory fashion.
I love the immediacy and physicality of applying paint and making colours sing. i call them storyscapes or free scapes, full of life

Usually i work with charcoal, oil, mainly acrylic and ink and some acetate pieces are works in spontaneous and playful progress.
I also love the apparent randomness of abstract photos which are being developed, as well as working on some songs and a musical piece ‘finding a voice’.

Currently I live in Somerset having just moved from East Kent near the sea and have exhibited mainly in London and Kent and i have pieces in private collections across Europe and in the USA.

I always loved drawing and doodling my way out of difficult feelings, and painting. In the 90s where my sister worked I had the opportunity to look at a lot of art catalogues which were very inspiring and encouraging.
I love allowing the colour and energy to communicate feelings and life states with the viewer.

Exhibitions include;

New Kent Art Broadstairs
Pie Factory Margate
Skylark Gallery 2 London SE1,
Redgate Camberwell,
Salisbury Playhouse,
Alfred East, Kettering,
Artsway, Lymington,
Not the Royal Academy,
Castle Arts now Lilford Gallery, Canterbury,
Corkstreetopen,
Cristus-gallery,Sandgate,
Horsebridge and Fishslab Gallery Whitstable
Smallhythe studios nr Tenterden.
York Street Gallery Ramsgate
Murmurations, Bexhill