Sarah McCartney
she is the swift that fell into the sea
Nothing works. Everything is scattered and half finished. One day something will work. But I'm learning that it never will and that is...
Sarah McCartney Artist
Cornish artist living and working in Falmouth
Currently studying for the Authorial Illustration MA at Falmouth University but due to the pandemic taking intermission, returning in January 2022. A Cornish artist living and working in Falmouth Sarah studied in London for many years finishing with a post graduate diploma in sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1989. Since returning to Cornwall in 1991 Cornwall and the sea have shaped and influence her life and work.
'My work is... process led, rooted in recording, collecting and making observational drawings of found natural objects, assembling my discoveries, reflecting time spent and distilling the essence of being present so my seeing and noticing can be re-seen and rediscovered by another… my way of living, of being awake, remembering that I am not separate, of noticing'
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Sarah McCartney
feeling useless, helpless, cowardly...
Feeling useless, helpless, cowardly. Why am I not out there protesting, why havent I posted a black screen on my Insta account. What good...
Sarah McCartney
swimmers
I should be looking at what I've already done instead of rambling around making new work but at the moment I'm just amazed and very glad...
Sarah McCartney
happy to be printing
Went in my studio for a few hours. Thinking about the seal and being in the earth and swimming. Did five mono prints. Unhappy as each one...
Sarah McCartney
furloughed
A temporary leave of absence. Have I been gone too long? Will I come back? Life revolves around my new 'family'. I come home to my quiet...
Sarah McCartney
one morning step out
one morning step out after a strong swim into big swell muscles fully stretched out breathe deepened and slowed down turn for a last look...
Sarah McCartney
'Living with, rather than against the rhythms of the world'
Living with, rather than against the rhythms of the world' Joseph Meeker, The Comedy of Survival: Literary Ecology and Play Ethic. Its...
Sarah McCartney
we stand alone
to get my head around this takes so much time this new life we stand alone surreal figures on the beach spaced out at intervals sun...
Sarah McCartney
intermission
They call it 'intermission'. Corvid -19 came in March. We had our last real group crit on Tuesday 17th. Mat and Steve said whoever wanted...
Sarah McCartney
#artchain
I had seen a few posts come up on Face Book about #artchain but wasn’t really sure what it was about. Then I was nominated by a couple of...
Sarah McCartney
for every day there is something…
I’ve tidied my room. It’s had the most thorough clean and sort out since we moved here (seven years) Marmite is very impressed with the...
Sarah McCartney
sea swimming and a new sketch book…
The sea is getting colder and wilder. So we go to the misty green river. To the quiet places with egrets and herons. Maybe, if we are...