A painting cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.
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My commissioned portraits reflect my interest in colour and light. I believe drawing is a fundamental activity and as such it underpins all my work that is figurative. My portrait and figurative work is built on anatomical accuracy. As a portrait artist, each portrait that I paint must reveal something original about the sitter. I want my painting to resonate with the presence of the individual, so I need to understand the sitter's fundamental nature before I can translate that into a painting or drawing. If it is a copy of a painting or photograph then I try to capture the light, movement or the emotion in the original painting/photograph.
 Pastel sketch for an oil "Girl with the Black Hat."H 60 x W 40 cm |
 Oil on Canvas "Girl in the Black Hat." H 62 X W 52 cm |
Before lockdown, I visited Wisley, one of the world’s greatest gardens. It is packed with artistic inspiration, such as its group of vivid pink magnolias trees. It was the vibrant colours of these magnolia blooms along with the strong patterns formed by the flowers that have become the inspiration for a new body of work. These new paintings are influenced by the varied textures, colours and patterns in Wisley Gardens.
Oil on Canvas
Sally Trueman - "Pink Magnolia." (H 146 x W 114 cm cm)
A painting cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.
 Detail "Pink Magnolia RHS Wisley." |
 Detail "Pink Magnolia RHS Wisley." |
Sally Trueman
Public Collections - Lloyds/T.S.B Group; Brighton Museum
Service; Hove Museum Service;National Westminster Bank; Russell
Cotes Museum & Art Gallery;Southampton City Hospital;
Brighton Museum. Her work is also held in France at Museum
Carcassonne and in China by the Bank of China.
Private Collections Works are held in United Kingdom, France,
Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Belgium, Denmark,
Greece, Turkey, Hungary, Luxembourg, U.S.A., Canada, India,
Australia, Saudi Arabia and China. Sally's work has been
displayed in many significant exhibitions.
Prizes 2001 First Prize at Galerie Encadra in Paris for a portrait of Zinedine Zidane. 2001, Exposition Internationale d'Art Moderne Canada - International Gold medal for a portrait of Nacera. Luciana Greco 2019 (Italian Contemporary Art Journal. A painting cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.