Artospective: Realist Figurative Paintings by Sally Lancaster.

Fragile Transparency 31x23in

An Interview with Sally Lancaster.

Who and where are you from?

I am Sally Lancaster and I'm from the UK

How you got into this?

Art was important to me as a child but after leaving school, it was never considered a career until I was in my early 20's and I found out about pet portraits being a thing and I started on my art road to where I am today.

What is your driving force?

I just love to paint. I love my studio, being here creating every day, producing paintings I'm proud of and hopefully others will like and want to own.

What kind of work you do and why?

I work in oils producing realist figurative work. Light is very important in my paintings and I enjoy the contrast on skin tones between light and shade.

Tell us more about your thought process.

I work from photographs so will start off by having a photo shoot with a model and attempting to explain to her the sort of style of painting I'm hoping to create. I love then going through the photographs I've taken and seeing images that pop out to me as perfect painting material. I will then choose an image to work from, draw it up on a canvas and get to work.

Please share with us the one modern artist whose work you find Interesting and why?

One of my favourite artists is Lindsey Kustusch. Her work is very different to mine and I always find it fascinating trying to work out how an artist works in a different method, a method I could never produce. She obviously also finds light important for her work and I dream of owning one of her pieces on day.