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Prior to Sarah Bee becoming a member of the Pastel Society in 2005, Sarah worked as a graphic designer for National Magazines as well as\u00a0a make-up artist and body painter for commercial photography and film. Sarah is best known for her highly emotive landscape pastel paintings. Ahead of the Pastel Society’s Annual Exhibition, I asked Sarah about how she first got started in Pastels.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"'Wind<\/a>
‘Wind Blown Gorse, Cornish Coast’ by Sarah Bee
39 x 39cm
Pastel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pastel painting came out of the blue to me.<\/p>\n

I was a watercolour painter but had begun to find myself frustrated by the \u00a0medium\u2019s limitations. I was painting with the Blockley group, and it was John Blockley who first suggested I try pastel; but I was initially resistant\u2026<\/p>\n

A short time later I visited the Pastel Society exhibition at the Mall Galleries in\u00a0London in order to support a friend \u2013 and I was unprepared for the effect it\u00a0would have upon me! I stayed so much longer than anticipated. All\u00a0preconceptions were blown away by the mass of work there. So many very\u00a0different paintings achieved by using the same medium\u2026and huge numbers\u00a0of them had such colour, life and spontaneity.<\/p>\n

\"'Sand<\/a>
‘Sand Amongst the Rocks at Mattiscombe’ by Sarah Bee
59 x 59cm
Pastel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was inspired, immediately bought the kit, and haven\u2019t done a watercolour\u00a0since that exhibition! There followed a few years of trial and error, none of\u00a0which deterred me from carrying on with pastel. Slowly I have found my own\u00a0painting methods, and these continue to evolve.<\/p>\n

\"'Signs<\/a>
‘Signs of Life in the Valley after a Long Hard Winter’ by Sarah Bee
59 x 59cm
Pastel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Traditional pastel supports don\u2019t suit me. I prefer to work on mount board and\u00a0to create my own \u2018tooth\u2019 with\u00a0gesso<\/a>. I follow this with a very wet and sploshy\u00a0underpainting of acrylic before working a final layer of pastel. I\u2019ve tried several\u00a0types of pastel and find that\u00a0Unison soft pastels<\/a>\u00a0offer the best quality and\u00a0pigment and huge colour variation. I couple them with the smaller\u00a0Conte a\u00a0Paris hard pastels<\/a>, and find I can achieve a good variety of marks and a lively\u00a0painting.<\/p>\n

\"'Warm<\/a>
‘Warm Rocks and Cool Water at Haytor Quarry’ by Sarah Bee
59 x 59cm
Pastel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I would encourage anybody with even a small interest in pastel as a medium\u00a0to give it a go…the possibilities are endless. Perhaps do as I did, and come to\u00a0our exhibition to see just some of them for yourself!<\/p>\n

www.sarahbee-painter.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Sarah teaches short courses at\u00a0Jack Beck House<\/a>\u00a0and at\u00a0West Dean College<\/a>.
\nDetails and more examples of work can be found on her website<\/p>\n

THE PASTEL SOCIETY exhibition 10-21 June at Mall Galleries London SW1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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