SALLY McLAREN RE’s work is celebratory, exploratory, light in touch and brilliant in colour. She is preoccupied by ‘The life that springs in landscape, the spirit of it, the growth and organisms of centuries, the effects of wind, rain, sun and the marks left by man from past to present.’ These glorious expressions are created in collaboration with the master-printmaker Andrew Smith (who also works with Martyn Brewster and David Inshaw) using an ambitious combination of drypoint, aquatint, etching and carborundum plates on the unique press Andrew Smith had built to make Howard Hodgkin’s prints. The results are technically and artistically outstanding works.

Sally McLaren was born in London, studied at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford and at the Central School of Art in London. After further study in Paris at the Atelier of Stanley William Hayter, she returned to England to teach at Goldsmith’s College of Art. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, the Printmaker’s Council of Great Britain and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. She 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.