Sally Weatherill
Mixed Media - Print and paint.

Working in print and paint, Sally Weatherill uses the palimpsest and the inevitable variation within manual repetition to explore the themes of transience, time and memory. Sally creates both types of work over an extended period, using repeated processes which fall into two opposing categories - constructive and destructive. These categories can be seen as symbolic of the tension between the man-made and the natural, the conscious and unconscious, the structured and unpredictable.

In Sally’s painting, multiple layers of paint, paper and pastes are applied and then partially removed or obscured; the final painting emerges slowly and meditatively, the result of many small decisions and the process itself. In printmaking she is currently focusing on etching and builds the plate by creating and then obliterating images. She typically works with soft ground, aquatint, open bite and spit bite, embracing the unexpected effects produced.

Sally’s work is characterized by openness and possibility. She works intuitively and freely, embracing an unknown outcome. There is always the potential that a work might undergo further transformation in the future.Openness extends to the viewer too. The palimpsestic layers she creates, although thematically linked to time and memory, work visually to create uncertainty and invite an open reading.