Distinguished printmaker, painter and etcher, Sally McLaren was born in London, studied at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford and at the Central School of Art in London. She won a scholarship to study in Paris at the famous Atelier of Stanley William Hayter, returning to teach at Goldsmith’s College of Art. She is a Fellow and Founder Member of the Printmaker’s Council of Great Britain, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. 

Sally has exhibited widely and her work is held in numerous collections around the world, including the New York Public Library, the Scottish Arts Council, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the Museum of Modern Art in Macedonia and the Cabo Frio Print Collection in Sao Paulo. In recent years, two monographs of her work have been published, The Response of Landscape and In Search of Stillness, which is available at the exhibition. Sally McLaren lives and works in Wiltshire.

Now in her 90^th year and still producing large joyous youthful carborundum prints, Sally’s unique artistic voice sings out even from the first prints she made while studying at the Central School of Art, London, in the late 1950s. We can see her first ever untitled black and white etching, which showed in that year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and all the key works which marked turning points in her career since then.