Sarah Price
I am a printmaker based in East London, drawing inspiration from my immediate surroundings and experiences. I’m often drawn to place — to the way locations accumulate meaning, and to questions of home and belonging. I’m particularly interested in environments caught between seasons, and in the friction between wilderness and human intervention: bridges, engineering, the built edge of the natural world.
I am an NHS GP and a mother of three. I have tried – not always successfully – to maintain an artistic practice alongside my medical work and motherhood. I am a mostly self-taught printmaker. I first became really interested in printmaking around 10 years ago following a collagraph workshop and an etching course at the Princes’ Drawing School. I loved etching, but returned to lino print as a form of printmaking that felt manageable to do at home while on maternity leave, possible to pick up and down as other responsibilities demanded.
A turning point came when I started producing lino print illustrations for books, including Max Adams’ Wood Age and Little Book of Planting Trees, as well as many of Sally Caulthard’s nature and reference books. Following this I began exploring more complex lino techniques, particularly reduction printing, building up layers of colour and tone from a single block. Because the block is destroyed in the process, each edition is genuinely, irreversibly limited. I have exhibited at Bromley By Bow Health Centre, Southbank Printmakers and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
Having grown up in Wiltshire, I always considered myself a ‘country’ person and was anxious about feeling out of place when I moved to London in 2014. Hampstead Heath became one of the places where I could get a countryside fix in the midst of the city. I have fond memories of family meet-ups, summer picnics and winter walks there, and I love that iconic view from Parliament Hill, which feels like you are floating above the city on some kind of bridge to another world.