art and life
Samantha spent her Foundation year at Wimbledon School of Art and then trained at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, where she achieved a BA Honours degree in three dimensional design.
After leaving art school she set up a studio in east London, working as a sculptor in clay focussing on the female nude form. She exhibited in galleries in London and Devon.
She then moved to Madrid, where she spent five years teaching and drawing. There she began painting a sequence of watercolours inspired by the local countryside, towns and villages, and the windmills and plains of La Mancha.
In the late nineties she returned to the UK, and three years ago moved to Hastings, drawn by the vibrancy of the artistic community and the town as a whole.. Like many artists here, she feels privileged to belong to a thriving creative community, and also part of the long tradition of those who have been inspired by the beauty of Hastings, the sea and the surrounding landscapes.
She has been a member of the Beacon life-drawing group for three years, and the charcoal studies on display here show her lifelong interest in form and the female nude.
The Stade paintings developed from a series of sketches and photographs made at Rock-a-Nore in Hastings. The paintings attempt to capture the forms and textures of the working beach, and in particular, the ephemeral and elusive beauty of the arches in the harbour arm as they are fleetingly exposed and then submerged by the tide
