Gorse
73 x 73 cm
Drypoint, monotype and painting
2022
A Horse Amongst Art Lovers
52.5 x 52.5 cm
Drypoint monotype, with painting
Variable edition of 10
2022
Laguna
52.5 x 52.5 cm
Drypoint, hand finished
Variable edition of 10
2022
St James Park
75 x 75 cm
Etching with watercolour
2021
Under the Same Moon 4
77 x 77 cm
1 of a set of 4 hand coloured monotypes
2021
Sky Flowers
100 x 76 cm
Drypoint, monotype and painting
2022
Springtime
91 x 62 cm
Drypoint, monotype and painting
2022
Sally Spens Near to Evening
Near to Evening
60 x 60cm
Oil on linen
2019
Mimosa Jazz (Pink) 2013
Etching with aquatint
50 x 35 cm
Flowers from the Quarry (2015)
Etching with aquatint
45 x 60 cm
Polwheveral Green (2012)
Etching with aquatint
70 x 45 cm
Polwheveral Red (2012)
Etching with aquatint
70 x 45 cm
Plane Tree (2013)
Etching with aquatint
45 x 30 cm
Deja Blue (2013)
Etching with aquatint
Sally Spens trained at Goldsmiths’ College in the late 70’s following a textile/fine art degree course, before working in the applied art of textile design. With a background in fashion and interiors Sally has an artisan’s approach to painting and printmaking.
Her paintings and prints have been made in parallel to the design work that Sally produces with Kim Bentley in design partnership Bentley & Spens. Now based in London and Cornwall, they collaborate on specific design projects. From 2000 – 2007 this has included designing collections of prints for yukata ( summer kimonos) for an old established Japanese company : Kawashima
“I see the work as being about drawing, the beauty of the subject and its inherent rhythms, and the abstract qualities of the composition. It is in the tradition of the decorative arts.”