Sarah Hinckley “Watercolors and Paintings”
Littlejohn Contemporary
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Sarah Hinckley’s ethereal abstract paintings and watercolors have nuanced references to landscape and botanical motifs. Her paintings tend towards the muted and minimal, though the newer paintings have a bolder palette and lush surface, allowing the artist’s process to reveal itself through brushwork and other painterly accidents. The overall presence of Hinckley’s work is gentle, meditative and a manifestation of her longtime involvement with yogic practice.
Hinckley’s paintings and watercolors stem primarily from her encounters with her surroundings – triggered by a color, a shape, an impression, an emotion, or a memory. Her childhood was spent on Cape Cod where she grew up surrounded by expansive sea and sky awash with light. These memories remain the core of her inspiration, and the source that imbues her paintings with a distinctive quality of light. She cites other artistic influences such as Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, 60’s formalist color field painting and the method of Monet’s late paintings.
In her studio Hinckley spends time switching between the mediums of oil painting and watercolor allowing time for reflection and drying. She approaches painting intuitively, most of the works take a few months to complete and some remain in conversation for a year or more.
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from September 01, 2015 to September 03, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-09-03 from 18:00 to 20:00