Sarah Thornton

"Nature has always been my escape, take the Blackbird for instance, on first glance they look the same, but if you closely study them and listen to their songs, you see the individuals. I’ve spent the last ten years watching the birds that visit my garden, I Iive on the edge of the city at the top of Gledhow Valley Woods, in the summer I listen to how they chatter and how that carries down the valley. It brings quiet to my over active brain, connect with nature and you can almost hear the chords that have inspired composers and music makers from time and memorial.

"I like how my birds can be fantasy or real, they allow me to explore emotions, somehow they can carry how I feel about the world.

"These latest paintings featuring birds and flowers see me exploring more notions in regard to art as composing, using colour and forms that feel musical. I always have a song in my head and I’m known now by a lot of my customers as Discoballdiva my art alias who paints disco balls to evoke those feelings that occur when out dancing.

I am also one of the artists for high end design house The Monkey Puzzle Tree, with my ‘Rita does Jazz’ Velvet and ’She Chose Science’ super wide wallpaper."

© Sarah Thornton