Clementine Open Studios now offers art classes for everyone, children through adults.
Sarah Kinn has been teaching art to primary school children for nearly ten years. As a teacher, she is often inspired by the work of her students. Over the years, she has incorporated their observations and representations into her own art.
Sarah is also deeply inspired by nature, believing that the modern Western World is complex and overly commercial. She has attempted, through her art, to rebel against the things that create stress in our everyday lives. Her images are simple and tend to have a “two-dimensional” look. Sarah spends as much time on color and the creation of palettes as painting and rarely uses colors straight out of the tube. Her palettes are hopeful to a certain degree, willing the world to be visually beautiful through the complexities of color and yet remaining simple and harmonious.
Sarah is inspired by the works of Milton Avery, Paul Klee, and Mark Rothko. In each of these artists’ works, she sees an emphasis on color over technique and subject matter. In her view, it is color above all, that defines the artist’s state-of-mind and feelings. |
