Sarah Moncrieff is an Oxfordshire based Urban Landscape artist whose work focuses on depicting modern urban life in all its complexity, and stages of decay, evolution and reformulation. Her subject matter is broad ranging from public institutions such as hospitals and prisons to factory interiors. She has a particular interest in innovation - future energy and technology and how these facets of modern life present themselves in an ever changing landscape.
Sarah also paints the Oxford landscape exploring how this is also changing as recent architectural buildings and works are providing a new, modern iteration of the University and its surrounding.
She has undertaken Artist in Residence positions, most recently for the Oxford Health charity, Creating with Care.
Sarah undertakes art projects in UK prisons, including HMP Huntercombe, Bullingdon and Bedford. A joint exhibition of paintings by Sarah and the prisoners from HMP Bullingdon went on display at The Cornerstone Art Gallery in Didcot, Oxfordshire.
Sarah exhibits her work at various venues and galleries locally and nationally.
Her work is held in both private and the following public collections, including:
"Bridge of Sighs" Oxford University
"Oxford Skyline" Oxford University
"Balliol college" Oxford University
"Brasenose Lane" Oxford University
"St Mary's, High street, Oxford" Oxford University
"Broadmoor Hospital, Old Gates", West London Mental Health Trust
"Bridge of Sighs 2" Kellogg college, University of Oxford
"Radcliffe Camera and St Mary's, the University Church" Kellogg college, University of Oxford
Sarah trained originally as a solicitor, but realising that her true vocation was painting stepped off the treadmill to pursue her passion for art. Sarah has a degree in Fine Art from De Montfort University, where she worked with "The Discerning Eye" prize winning painter and lecturer Chris Muir. Sarah is also a teacher of Drawing and Painting.
Sarah's work is listed in the Public Catalogue Foundation www.artuk.org and has been shortlisted and won prizes for both her paintings and knitwear designs.
In 2015 she was selected to undertake a residency in Senegal where her paintings were exhibited as part of the Dak’Art Biennale. In 2017 she was selected to undertake a residency in Nepal.
Her work has been extensively reviewed and featured in local and national press including “Artists and illustrators” magazine.
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She has spent time in Senegal, Ethiopia and Kenya and has worked with street and school children in these countries undertaking art workshops with them. As a result of her experiences, in 2020 Sarah set up and now runs the charity Time for Art offering people in the UK creative opportunities they would otherwise not have access to.
Her Oxford paintings are available in print form and are sold through VAPrints
Sarah also designs and creates individual pieces of knitwear which are inspired by her paintings and love of the natural world.
For all other paintings and commissions, please contact the artist directly through the contact section