Sarah Britten Art

Paintings in lipstick

Author: Sarah

I will not be afraid

These paintings are all linked by a theme of gender and gender-based violence.   A lot of my work addresses gender-based themes by default: if the medium is the message, […]

Firepool

This was an exhibition waiting to happen. The moment I heard the word “fire pool” back in December 2013, I thought: I want to paint that. I work predominantly in […]

Deadlines and inspiration

A deadline is the best form of inspiration. I would not be painting frantically until midnight if I didn’t have a new exhibition at the end of the month. The […]

Summer Jozi Butterflies

Joburg is alive with little white butterflies. Crowds of them are dancing across the city, from west to east, on their way to Mozambique. These are known as brown-veined whites […]

Trying something new

I’ve always fantasised about burning my own work. Call it the prerogative of the artist to destroy his or her own creations. I had every intention of burning a painting […]

Inspiration

Lots of things inspire me to paint. A feeling, a sky. Birds. A view. The suck and sigh of the sea as it meets rock. Fish quivering beneath the ripples.

Painting Madiba

This year I’ve done several paintings inspired by Madiba. On Sunday, I painted this to commemorate his burial. On Monday, I painted him inside the form of the secretary bird […]

Trapped and bound

Nobody who has not experienced clinical depression can understand what it is like. I have friends who have a mood disorder, and we have an understanding in a way that […]