STATEMENT

Painting is how I process my emotions and filter the world around me.

I approach painting intuitively, mapping out ideas and impressions into color fields, shapes, and marks. I spend time editing, receptive to new direction, color relationships and maybe something unexpected. Certain elements in this visual dialogue remain unresolved, so I slow down and remain in conversation. Patience, restraint, and risk carry equal weight as I move through this process and my challenge is to be open to all possibilities. My work is complete when it offers the viewer intimate and unexpected spaces to explore.

  • A photograph of Cape Cod's blue ocean and golden marsh grasses, an example of the landscape that inspires Sarah Hinckley's abstract color field paintings.

    My earliest inspiration to paint came from the landscape and light on Cape Cod, where I grew up surrounded by color fields of water, marsh, beach, and sky. While nature is still important to my work, I also seek out different cultures and other artists -- both inspire and challenge my own creative expression. I have a particular affinity with painters who are using formal means to express their emotions. Today, striving to create something beautiful with ones own emotional vocabulary feels imperative.

    Simple forms of beauty can easily be overlooked in an ever changing and challenging world.