Sarah Jane Conklin

Sarah Jane Conklin

Artist Statement

Atlantic Canada’s romantic landscape and wild beauty has inspired me for over 20 years. Our diverse forests, meandering brooks, change of season and charming birds provide endless inspiration to me. These elements of nature in a kaleidoscopic environment are my primary interest. Motion and mystique are created through deliberate entanglements of brushstrokes, rich colour contrast, the chance effect of impasto, and the innate luminosity of oil paint. Painting alla prima allows every painting to exude its own energy and excitement. I want viewers to escape, even for a brief moment, into my romantic world.

Artist Biography

Sarah Jane has pursued her artistic interest since 1995. Mostly self-taught, she has been inspired by the scenic communities where she has lived which include Gloucester, MA; Sackville, NB; her birthplace St. John’s NL and her current home in Fall River, NS.

She has successfully exhibited in galleries across Nova Scotia, and is currently exhibiting in Art Sales and Rental Gallery, Halifax, NS, Peter Lewis Gallery, St. John’s, NL; Trinity Galleries, Saint John, NB. She continues to be inspired by her involvement in local art groups. She is featured in ‘From Land and Sea, Nova Scotia Contemporary Landscape Artists’, (Nimbus Publishing, 2009), and the 2012 Sharing the View Calendar, a cooperative fundraising project with CBC Radio, and Feed Nova Scotia. In 2016, she self-published 2 book; ‘Flying Colours’, and 'Nesting Grounds', 2 charming book about birds that she wrote and illustrated with her oil paintings.