Sandra Ross
Artist
Over many years I have been documenting feelings of loss and grief using motifs of landscape and natural form as a metaphor to describe my experiences, while recording the internal struggle to heal.
In the process of making, I take myself to these experiences and create narratives that invite you into my world that is somewhat awkward, transcendental, imaginative, and mystical, – a world where recovery is possible.
With charcoal, pastel, watercolour, and gouache, I render layers in innovative and lyrical movements, echoing time, memory, and place.
Life's Loves, 2018
Graphite and Pen and Ink Wash
1200 X 740mm framed in natural pine
$1400 Framed
The One and the Many, 2018
Graphite and Pen and Ink Wash
1200 X 740mm framed in natural pine
$1400 Framed
Teetering, 2018
Mixed Media
1200 X 740mm framed in natural pine
SOLD
Lost in My Mind, 2018
Graphite and Pen and Ink Wash
1200 X 740mm framed in natural pine
$1400 Framed
Inner Mind, 2018
Graphite and Ink
870 X 720mm framed in natural pine
$1400 Framed
If Things were Perfect, 2018
Graphite and Ink
870 X 720mm framed in natural pine
NFS
My is work inspired by the beauty of the natural world…
Drawing in nature is very important to me...
Wynnum Mangroves - Memory Series, 2006 - 2019
Mixed Media
Price: $500 Unframed
Coolooloi Creek, K'gari (Fraser Island) 2019
Monoprint
Price: $800 Unframed
Two Coffins, 2016
Ink and Graphite
SOLD
Path of Hindsight, 2016
Monoprint
Price: $800 Unframed
Tethered to a Dream, 2017
Mixed Media
SOLD
exhibitions
presence 2002
...if only the walls could talk…
groundwater and beauty 2006
...I feel very deeply about the spiritual link between humanity, beauty and the natural world…
Transparent 2003
...noticing the physical environment through the senses and within the body...
Landscape: letting go 2014
...Landscape has become a metaphor for my life...my intention is to give my artworks away...
a sense of place 2003
...layering past and present, lost and found, old and new...
Tethered to a Dream, 2017
...Landscape has become a metaphor for my life...my intention is to give my artworks away...
biography
Lifelong love of art
Sandra Ross is a visual artist who primarily works in 2D mixed media.
An educator for over 40 years, Sandra encourages others by offering creative experiences, short courses, and workshops in a variety of media and subjects.
Now retired, Sandra was the Gympie Regional Gallery’s Education and Public Programs Officer for 15 years.
She completed a Bachelor of Education (Art) from City Art Institute (formerly Alexander Mackie CAE) Sydney in 1982, and a Masters of Art, Visual Art (MAVA) from Queensland College of Art, Brisbane in 2002.
Sandra has exhibited throughout Australia and has won numerous awards both locally and regionally.
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