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Sabrina Rowan-Hamilton

Entering Sabrina’s house is a delight. She is a true bohemian and refreshingly lives her art, with every wall and corner of her Chelsea House crammed with paintings. An overwhelming smell of oil paint greets you as you walk down the stairs to her light and airy studio. Sabrina initially trained at the City & Guilds of London Art School. She has now moved a long way from her initial formal training and inhabits a more abstract world in which paintings create a new landscape of the mind. There is a slight urban feel to many, which I suspect has much to do with the fact that she finds it hard to paint without, as she puts it, “putting a Tower” in - almost like a security blanket, although I suspect that what dwells within her Towers is as exciting as the world outside them: “…..what really interests Sabrina are the emotional lives of those living behind closed doors. For the spaces they inhabit are filled with their silent histories - memories, thoughts and feelings. The walls that surround them may provide temporary security, yet it is in their internal world where true freedom is to be found”. Sabrina’s painting are often works in progress. She commented that a couple of the paintings we were discussing may have changed almost beyond recognition from what they are now to what they will be. Happily, speaking to her today she was having them photographed so I am encouraged that they are finished! Sabrina’s current body of work, some of which we are very excited to be showing at Hackwood this year, is full of light and energy and definitely something to look out for.

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