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| Sarah Holl |
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Adaptation is perhaps the most apt word to describe Sarah Holl’s artistic evolution into the clay medium. Growing up around her father’s studio carried the obvious influences, yet Sarah’s proclivity was always toward painting and drawing. While she spent mush of her childhood and early adulthood experimenting with clay, she directed most of her passions toward two-dimensional work. This included studying at the Art Institute of Boston and Ringling School of Art in Florida. For a few years she worked on the Cape in the summer and spent time living in Florida and Colorado during the winter months. But Scargo always a provided a stable environment to further her creative scope, and Sarah considers this to be the place where she received the majority of her training.
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Developing approaches to clay that could still fulfill her love of drawing and painting became Sarah’s endeavor. The surface of a thrown piece, or rolled clay slab became her canvas. Through the use of stains Sarah learned she could create painterly effects and explore the possibilities that a three dimensional ground provides. She also began to experiment with carving, a time consuming and delicate technique requiring patience and an understanding of clay’s unique properties. To develop a certain theme Sarah will often take her subject matter through a variety of media. An image may begin as a drawing or painting, be used to decorate a vase, and then reach its realization in a series of tiles. Most recently, Sarah has experimented with a large-scale clay tile paintings and carved relief's that may be mounted directly onto the wall. Modifying the techniques she uses in oil painting to the suit the ceramic medium provides a constant challenge.
While she has been a full time member of Scargo Pottery since 1992, Sarah continues to pursue her two dimensional work. She has exhibited her paintings at a number of galleries on Cape Cod including The Giving Tree, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Matrix Gallery, Signature Gallery and Scargo Pottery. She also has shown her stoneware tiles at the Artisan’s Gallery of Newbury Street. Most recently she has exhibited her brush and ink line drawings during a solo show at The American Craft Gallery in New York City. She has also been an instructor at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts and often conducts workshops for children in both clay and monoprinting. Sarah has studied with painters Cynthia Packard, Ann Packard, and Donald Beale, as well as participated in painting seminars at Castle Hill Canter for Arts in Truro and the Province town Art Association.
Sarah plans to continue to cultivate the thriving relationship between her works on paper and canvas and those in clay. She hopes that her intensive study of the human form and still life will naturally develop into abstraction, a venue through which she can engage her love for the bold line and vivid, intense use of color. |
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