Sadie Aston

Sadie Aston was born in Bournemouth and currently resides in Poole, Dorset. She completed her MA in Painting at Arts University Bournemouth in October 2022, following her BA in Fine Art. Her work is most inspired by impressionism and spiritualism, informed by artsist such as Monet and Munch. Aston has participated in several group shows, including The Summer Day at Silian Gallery, Chelsea, London.

My painting practice explores the existential experience of inhabiting a body and the act of surrendering to the world around us, emphasising how our internal self-perception reflects and shapes our external experiences. Through paint, I explore the body as a place of experience; existing within it, connecting to it, and relating to others through shared presence, emotion, and energy. Nature plays an important role in my work; I am drawn to its shapes, colours, and textures, it is where I feel most at peace. I paint figures that interact, or simply exist, using gestural mark-making as a way of processing and exploring my own emotions and relationships. Working primarily with oil paint thinned into translucent layers onto linen or cotton duck, I use a vibrant dream like colour palette to stain the surface and allow bodies to slowly emerge/ dissolve within the painting. This layered process reflects fleeting moments of interaction, and feeling; where the past, present, and future seem intertwined.