Sarah WIMPERIS

Sarah WIMPERIS
1959

Sarah Wimperis is a painter and illustrator who was born in Kent. She graduated from Falmouth School of Art in 1981 and spent many years travelling, including six years in Norway, teaching art, and four years in France, before settling in Manaccan in Cornwall. She has been a regular exhibitor at Beside the Wave in Falmouth since 2008.

In the summer of 2016 Sarah Wimperis travelled to Gdansk, Poland, as the only English oil painter among a 95-strong international team of artists selected to participate in the creation of an animated film on Vincent van Gogh, entitled 'Loving Vincent'. The film is due for release in 2017.

She has led workshops at Truro Arts Company (2018).

media

Painting in oils and watercolour

works and access

Beside the Wave Gallery, Falmouth

exhibitions

2009: Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London

2010, 2011: Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour - Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2011: Contemporary Impressionism 6-18 Aug, Beside The Wave Gallery + Falmouth Art Gallery

2011: Affordable Art Fair, London

2011: Affordable Art Fair, Bristol

2012: 'Effortless Brushstrokes', Falmouth Art Gallery

memberships

Prime Women Artists

references

Cornwall Today (Nov 2016) 'Impressions from a Film Set' by Viki Wilson