Patricia Sadler

PATRICIA SADLER was born in Selkirk in 1946 and has lived in the Scottish Borders most of her life. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1962-64 followed by a three year course at Queen Margaret College, studying Dress and Design. She then taught fabric collage and creative embroidery for three years before starting a family.  By the time her children were at school she was spending every spare moment painting and had work accepted by the Scottish Society of Women Artists, The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Scottish Artists and Artist Craftsmen.  Since then she has exhibited extensively and has paintings in many private collections.  She uses pure watercolour but in recent years she has been concentrating on the use of acrylic on canvas, enjoying the depth and texture which can be achieved with this medium. 

With my roots firmly in the Scottish Borders, I feel passionate about its richly colourful landscape, rolling hills, patchwork quilts of fields, sudden dark shapes of woodland, the River Tweed twisting and turning throughout. With all this, plus the dramatic headland of St Abbs, only a few miles away from where I live, I think I am very fortunate indeed, as I find our coastline, and the power and energy of the sea, a compelling and ever changing subject.  I use all these factors as initial points of reference but my painting depends on instinct and intuition, always searching deeply for the emotional response, leading the mind beyond the surface of what the eye perceives. Certainly there is an element of chance but not, I hope, incoherence. Yes there is spontaneous gesture but also much inner debate and soul searching. Ultimately, working in my studio, the painting takes on a life of its own.  

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