Selected works 22

Sarah Needham
Selected works
August 22

Works available to select from:

Contact Sarah Needham at 07964913056 to arrange delivery or by email on
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Delivery is free within the M25, for delivery elsewhere please contact me for a quote.
The works in this catalogue are arranged in colour groupings which usually correspond to specific
collections, more details about collections can be found at
www.sarahneedhamartist.co.uk. (collections are indicated in brackets after the title)

Meander Looking for Connection

Bone black, golden ochre in oil on Bone black, vine black, golden
gesso on wood, framed in an oak ochre and madder in oil on gesso
floater frame on wood in an oak floater frame

80x80cm 80x80cm

£2000 £2000

In much of my work, the most
ancient of pigments are used as
a metaphor for all that is human,
appearing as they do in the
oldest of artefacts from our
globally shared visual culture.

We Mean to Float Away
Red ochre, bone black and vine black in oil on canvas
100x150cm. £4700

Eendraught (Captured Ships) Sea Gyre (Captured Ships)
Indigo in oil on canvas Indigo in oil on canvas
200x120cm 200x120cm
£7600 £7600

Fall When We Were So Busy Getting Lost The Falcon Cannot Hear The Falconer
Indigo in oil on canvas Indigo in oil on canvas Indigo in oil on canvas
150x100cm 150x100cm 150x100cm
£4700 unframed £4700 unframed £4700 unframed

London Windows Bars on Windows Dark Windows

All hand made oil on gesso on wood, 42x59 cm.

The House Opposite Mine Pulling It Together Windows across the Street

Gloaming (small) Dwindling Deposits Returning

The Windows Collection was
made painting wet on wet, with
paints applied in the order they
appear on the records in visual
culture, globally, but blurred in
application, in response to the
disorientating sensation of time
in lock down, and the dual
experience of being part of
something global and at the
same time locked into a specific
locality.

£900 each unframed

The Park When we Were Running Darkling

Passing your Windows on the Way there The Blues
Hand made oil on canvas
80x80cm Hand made oil on canvas
£2000
100x100cm £2400

Small Ports and Sea Coves Collection

The material basis of this collection is pigments with a relationship to the history of the
South West coast of England, particularly Dorset and Cornwall.

The mining related pigments are based on iron, copper, aluminium and kaolin. The sea trade based pigments are indigo, woad, ochres and
madder. Then there is mud-rock ochre a pigment derived by the artist from the earth of the Jurassic coast, from a clay formed from
eroded materials before people walked on the earth. And sea brick ochre hand made in the studio from bricks from cliff fall houses
collected from the beach at Lyme Regis where they have been eroded in the sea.

The abstract forms in these paintings contain echoes of the material reality of the South West Coast. The particularity of the South West
Coast with its small coves comes as a result of the impact of sea erosion on the land which was formed as a result of a dynamic geological
history, involving heat and magma, periods of cool and water, volcanic activity and ice, the movement of tectonic plates, intrusion and
metamorphosis. Bands of rock of differing densities hit the coast, and are eroded at different speeds, as the sea pierces a harder band a
cove forms as it reaches the softer band behind it. Over millions of years the earth moved

In particular in my head was a playback of the stories of piracy, smuggling and privateering . The notion of hiding in plain sight. The way in
which booty was hidden just below the surface when disguised as lobster pots, the way in which the low tide may reveal all. The way a
changing landscape makes something possible that was not possible before, and the way that layers of meaning are hidden within.

They play with sense of a liminal space with a complex international and internal reach, of transitions, and blurred boundaries.

Parallel Strata

Hand made oil on canvas
150x120cm
£5000 or £5600 framed

Beneath the Waves

Hand made oil on canvas
150x120cm
£5000

Sea Coves

Hand made oil on Arches huile paper
172x125cm approx once trimmed
£5200

Hiding in Plain Sight

Hand made oil on canvas
150x120cm
£5000 or £5600 framed

Incoming Tide

Hand made oil on canvas
120x150cm
£5000

Sea Lines

Hand made oil on canvas (awaiting
varnish, requires further drying)
150x120cm
£5000

Night Sea

Hand made oil on gesso on wood
(awaiting varnish, requires further
drying)91x91cm
£2100

Incoming Bay Wash Back

All Hand made oil on Arches
300gsm huile cotton rag archival
paper

41x31cm

£400 each unframed

New Cove. Growing Headlands

The Cob

Hand made oil on Arches huile paper
173x125cm
£6000

West of Seatown

Hand made oil on Arches huile paper
167x125cm ( approx once trimmed),
£5500

Hiding Near Studland

Hand made oil on gesso on wood
80x80cm
Framed
£2000

Stirring Up The Sea
Bed

Hand made oil on canvas
100x80cm
£2100

West Bay, East Beach

Hand made oil on Arches huile paper,
129x79cm
£2500

Chesil

Hand made oil on gesso on wood
80x60cm
£1900

NGeaallerrtihset Home of the

Hand made oil on gesso on wood
80x60cm
£1900

East Beach

Hand made oil on Arches huile paper
148x125cm
£5000

From the Earth and Sea Collection

A collection of works made using pigments from or grown in the earth and traded over the sea, pigments that have a
relationship to the South West of England and particularly its coast, the area where I grew up, and the place I longed
for when travel was not allowed.  In the summer of 2020 and 2021 when I was able to fulfil this longing I visited
Hampshire, Dorset Somerset and Cornwall, collecting images of the ancient landscape, researching pigments and
collecting materials direct from the land.  I was drawn to the ancient sites, to the landmarks in barrows which look like
fertility symbols while marking places of burial. To the standing stones, and the forms that repeat through history. To
the role of this area as a conduit of people, ideas and trade, with legal and piratical.  And as always to the evidence of
cultural exchange and the richness that comes from the  movement of people.

Woodhenge

Hand made inks on gesso on wood
50.5x50.5cm
£800

Our House is Falling
Down

Sea brick ochre, picked up from Lyme
Regis, woad, Murdock ochre and
madder on Arches huile paper
126x171cm
£5000 (£5200 framed)

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Madder, verdigris, terre vert, woad,
mud rock ochre on Arches huile paper,
126x180
£5200 framed

Round Barrow

Hand made oil on canvas
76.5x76.5cm
Framed £2000

Embedded

Hand made oil on canvas
76.5x76.5cm
£2000 framed

Ova

Hand made oil on gesso on wooden
artist panel
77x77cm
£2000 framed

Cove Hand made oil with madder, titanium whitened
ochre, yellow ochre, on canvas
100x150cm
£4700

Disc Barrow (small)

Hand made inks on gesso on wood
50.5x50.5cm
£800

Disc Barrow (large)

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Archaeologies

Works made ordering pigments in oil on the surface in
the order they appear in the record of visual culture,
referenced as far as possible across the globe.

AMrincehraaelologies

Hand made oil on canvas
100x100cm
£2200

Alchemy to Chemistry

Selecting pigments that had ancient use and were
chosen for synthesis in the industrial revolution,
reflecting on the change in experience of colour in
culture, much like todays transference to Digital rather
than material colour, and the implications for how
people perceive, and related philosophical ideas

Ideas of Purity

More Ideas of Purity and Other Ideas
of Purity

Three pieces 20x20cm, madder and
alizarin in oil on canvas

£200 each or £500 for the triptych

Magpie Shoes

From the Alchemy to Chemistry
collection

Hand made oil with synthetic indigo
and Mars orange on canvas
120x120cm
£2800

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