Sarah Dixon

Sarah Dixon is an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary artist based in the UK. She started to create art when she was a teenager and has studied in many genres with a particular interest in Cypriot icon painting and Renaissance painting methods. Sarah is currently undertaking a master’s degree "Performance: Society" at Central Saint Martin's, University of the Arts London. Currently she has her studio in a small town on the edge of the Cotsowlds, where she is entering into a dialogue with land Goddesses and Earth through painting.

Her works are strongly influenced by intersectional feminism, her upbringing in Cyprus and travelling a great deal; her Irish ancestry, her neurodivergent brain, and her degree in Biology (UCL). She worked in Amazonian rainforest as an ethnobotanist and researcher following these studies, living with the Shiwiar people in Ecuador which has also influenced her world view and understanding of the rigourous power of intutive practices.

She has a rich multi disciplinary practice drawing upon a wide ragne of cultural influences, and has won awards in photography, animation and moving image. She is co-founder of the Women's Art Activation System, a collaboration to create feminist socially engaged ...

Sarah is currently studying MA Performance: Society at Central Saint Martin's, University of the Arts London.

She has a background in botany and conservation following a Biology degree at UCL. She also has a certificate in Corporate Design from the London College of Communications, and has studied bronze casting and drawing at the Slade; life drawing in Florence, painting with portrait artist Henry Ward in London, and icons with Nikitas Sofokles in Paphos, whilst at the Cyprus
College of Art.

She attended boarding school in the UK and made an attempt at a Physic degree that failed - leading to taking Biology which was much more suited to her creative, generative and curious mind.

100 Goddesses - Lansdown Gallery Stroud Solo Show 2022

Gloucestershire Printmaking Cooperative Group Show, Museum in the Park, Stroud, 2016
Painting by Numbers, Public Art project SVA site festival Stroud 2013
Kew Studio Group Show, St Luke’s House November 2011
Stroud at Work & Play, Portrait Photographs Subscription Rooms Stroud November 2011
Kew Studio Group Show, Orange Tree Theatre March 2011
“Goblin Market” at Oblong Gallery 7-21 January 2010
Affordable Art Show Dec09-Feb2010 at Riverside Gallery, Richmond
Eight Portraits at Hubbub Cafe, London Oct-Nov 2009
Olympic Site London: Botanical Expedition with Pudding Mill Products Sept 2009
Cheltenham Art Gallery 2008-2009 Gloucestershire Print Cooperative Group Show
'Earth' Group Show in Richmond (Orleans House, Twickenham) 2008
Open Studios Richmond 2007, 2008, 2009

Commissions
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“Louise Hirst” Oil on canvas 2011 – Allan Hirst
“Our Savouress” Egg Tempera on Wood 2010 – Anna Portch
“The Tyrrell Sisters” - Three portraits - Oil on canvas 2010 – Therese Tyrrell
“Mia” Oil on canvas 2010 – Boran
“Ronald Aaronson” Oil on canvas 2010 – Marcus Ereira
“Mariana's Garden”Oil on canvas 2010 – Mariana Heilmann
“Bill” - Oil on canvas 200...