Sara Moorhouse’s work explores the ways in which spaces within landscape appear altered depending on the ever-changing colours of season, weather, time and farming. The bowls act as a canvas for paintings that distil specific landscape scenes, perceptibly altering the size, depth and shape of the form by the applied colour. The forms can be made to seem wider or narrower, deeper or shallower, heavier or lighter, or they may appear to undulate, bend, move or hover by the juxtaposition of finer lines. The viewing of both inner and outer surfaces together enables her to exploit colour connections and visual play from one side to another, emphasising or flattening the dimensionality of the form.
The research has enabled me to develop a vocabulary of spatial colour knowledge specific to the three-dimensional bowl form, in which I have learnt to manipulate and articulate three-dimensional space to a much greater effect. After a long awaited continuation of my studio practice, I am now integrating the findings from my PhD with colourways and arrangements from my previous practice, for which my intuitive response to landscape scenes, colour and form, remain key objectives for my practice.
Price range: £300 - £10,000
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Saturn Series: In 2019, Joanna commisioned Sara to create ‘Saturn Bowl’ for a commission for NASA: to create an artwork that represented space in some way, to be exhibited and auctioned at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Apollo moon landing. Within the collection only 5 colours are used, derived from an image of Saturn seen through an infrared lens, yet 9 or more colours are visible. This is due to a phenomenon known as simultaneous contrast, where the eye sees different colours depending on the neighbouring hue. One of the strongest colour illusions is that of red juxtaposed with dark blue; the red is altered so much it appears as a bright fuschia pink.
H 10 x W 15.25 cm
2024
Ref. SM-CK30-2401
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Saturn Series: In 2019, Joanna commisioned Sara to create ‘Saturn Bowl’ for a commission for NASA: to create an artwork that represented space in some way, to be exhibited and auctioned at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Apollo moon landing. Within the collection only 5 colours are used, derived from an image of Saturn seen through an infrared lens, yet 9 or more colours are visible. This is due to a phenomenon known as simultaneous contrast, where the eye sees different colours depending on the neighbouring hue. One of the strongest colour illusions is that of red juxtaposed with dark blue; the red is altered so much it appears as a bright fuschia pink.
H 8 x w 9 cm
2024
Ref. SM-CK30-2403
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Saturn Series: In 2019, Joanna commisioned Sara to create ‘Saturn Bowl’ for a commission for NASA: to create an artwork that represented space in some way, to be exhibited and auctioned at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Apollo moon landing. Within the collection only 5 colours are used, derived from an image of Saturn seen through an infrared lens, yet 9 or more colours are visible. This is due to a phenomenon known as simultaneous contrast, where the eye sees different colours depending on the neighbouring hue. One of the strongest colour illusions is that of red juxtaposed with dark blue; the red is altered so much it appears as a bright fuschia pink.
H 8 x W 9.5 cm
2024
Ref. SM-CK30-2402
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Saturn Series: In 2019, Joanna commisioned Sara to create ‘Saturn Bowl’ for a commission for NASA: to create an artwork that represented space in some way, to be exhibited and auctioned at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Apollo moon landing. Within the collection only 5 colours are used, derived from an image of Saturn seen through an infrared lens, yet 9 or more colours are visible. This is due to a phenomenon known as simultaneous contrast, where the eye sees different colours depending on the neighbouring hue. One of the strongest colour illusions is that of red juxtaposed with dark blue; the red is altered so much it appears as a bright fuschia pink.
H 10 x W 16 cm
2024
Ref. SM-CK30-2404
Whilst the blues on these pieces are different, the bright-pink and the orange-red are exactly the same red. This can be explained in relation to simultaneous contrast.
‘Crepuscular Ray’ is an abstract interpretation of a view out to sea on a calm day. Light winds gently brush the sea this way and that creating variably-toned horizontal blue bands, onto which broken sunlight dapples. From between the clouds a single beam of light spills diagonally, crossing the otherwise uniform scene.
Sold as installation made up of 24 bowls
H 110 x W 110 cm