Sonia Stanyard
Sonia Stanyard is a London-based artist with a BA Honours in Fine Art.
Internationally exhibited, with a solo show, Nurtured Landscapes, at Lab 610 De Faveri Contemporary Art Gallery in Italy, group shows at London Art Fair, Basel Art Fair and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and was the winner of The Door Prize for Painting at Centre Space Gallery, Bristol.
Participated in residencies at the prestigious Vermont Studio Centre (USA) and slab building at West Dean College, Sussex.
Upcoming exhibitions at Rabetts Gallery, London, Sluice and LungA School, Iceland and Artist Open Studio part of Camberwell Arts Festival.
In this ongoing series of works on paper I begin by silkscreening a rich dark green onto various paper stocks, this becomes the starting point for each subsequent artwork.
This particular piece explores a technique I developed where I use my nail to split the paper and gently pull the layers apart - I found a beautiful feathering occurs at the point when the layers slowly break free from each other.
These fragile fragments symbolise a kind of release, allowing me to explore and express the anatomy of the paper in a completely new way.
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