Sarah-Cate Blake
Sarah-Cate Blake is an artist based in Cambridge and has been painting in watercolour since 1993, although originally trained as a sculptor at Bretton Hall in Leeds.
Sarah-Cate has an interest in the movement of colour and light, enjoying the atmosphere watercolour creates. In painting her concern is to leave an impression, emotion, or sensation. Inspired by simple lines and washes of colour, often using a Chinese brush. She experiments with minimalism and has a deep interest in the arts of East Asia, and was very much inspired by her travels to Japan in 2018.
She also paints in acrylic exploring textures and opacity of layering paint.
Sarah-Cate enjoys walking and loves being outdoors, immersed in the landscape. she carries a watercolour set and sketch materials to document her emotive responses to the landscape there and then. These can be loose washes and quick atmospheric compositions in colour or tightly observed drawings and documents of a detail or thought.
She uses a range of papers, khadi, washi to somerset and bockingford enjoying the qualities that these bring to watercolour. Her paints are watercolour including Japanese colours, organic woad paste and gold in leaf, paste and powder form.
As a yoga and meditation practitioner Sarah-Cate references the spaciousness of the natural world.
Sky Sea Fen Light Mountain
No need to fill the space, allow room for breath and thought.
She offers original paintings and prints for sale and also work to commission. Sarah-Cate also teaches painting and drawing at The Fitzwilliam Museum and Stapleford Granary where she runs regular painting classes and welcome new painters at all levels.
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