About the Artist
Born and raised in Salford in 1956, Sandra’s rooted working class industrial surroundings were inked by the coal pollution of the city.
It was inevitable that her visits to the Salford and Manchester Art Galleries as a child, observing & absorbing the works of L.S. Lowry and Pierre Adolphe Valette, that her eyes would be opened to the subtle palettes that washed the sooted landscape.
This, together with encouragement from her father, sowed the seed of a lifelong love of artistic expression and led to the opportunity to work with the Salford City Council Arts & Leisure department.
Having drawn and painted for personal pleasure for years, it has only been recently that Sandra has had the opportunity to take dedicated time out to magnify her focus on her artistic interest and abilities.
In 2015 Sandra and her husband Bill moved from the Greater Manchester metropolis to the beautiful city of St Asaph in North Wales, shortly followed by enrolment on art courses at Denbigh & Llandrillo colleges. There she studied the works and techniques of Van Gough, Monet, Paul Klee and Kandinsky while experimenting with cubism, expressionism and surrealism.
Further art classes at Craig Y Don introduced Sandra to the work of Sharon Wagstaff and under Sharon’s direct personal tutelage was able to develop her skills and experience in landscape, seascape, portraiture and wildlife, all in pastel work.
Sandra works almost exclusively now in pastel, specialising in wildlife and pet portraiture.
In 2019 Sandra won the “Peoples Choice of Painting” award, voted for by visitors, at the Dwygyfylchi & District
Art Society, with her tigers eye portrait (“I Only Have Eyes For You”), shown on the website Home page.
Her works are regularly exhibited and sold at the Colwyn Bay Gallery with other works being exhibited annually
at Dwygyfylchi and Eglwysbach.
With the growing interest in her work and ever increasing requests for personal commissions Sandra’s work is now being sold across the UK and Europe.