Sandra Masterson
The artist uses soils in her paintings to attempt to describe a language – a means of expression. Nature has always been a driving force in her work, and it seems a natural progression that she now uses soil itself almost exclusively as the ‘pigment’. Walking through a changing landscape and the activity of collecting soils as part of an ‘earth mapping’ process has become central to her practice. The collected soils are then used as pigment and floated onto raw canvas. This allows the shapes of the soil particles to wash and separate naturally. Sandra’s work is always presented in series with regular spaces between each panel. This practice sets up a rhythm between the works, as well as introducing a grid like formation across the whole piece. Sandra has achieved Arts Council England funding to research and create new work in this series and has exhibited widely.