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Sarah Elliott
In the studio
 The white chair 12012, charcoal, 50 x 65cm |  The white chair 22012, charcoal, 50 x 65cm |  The white chair 32012, oil on card, 60 x 40 cm |
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 Four chairs2012, charcoal, 65 x 50 cm |  The black blanket 12012, charcoal, 50 x 65 cm |  The black blanket 22012, oil on card, 30 x 40 cm |
 The empty chair2011/2014, charcoal, 50 x 65cm |  Cactus2017, charcoal, 49 x 65 cm |  Yellow bowl 12017, charcoal, 65 x 50 cm |
 Yellow bowl 32017, oil on linen, 40 x 50 cm |  Yellow bowl 22017, oil on linen, 40 x 50 cm |  Chyrelle with Jumpy's help2017, charcoal, 50 x 65 cm |
These depictions of chairs in the studio offered some particularly interesting challenges both in oil paint and charcoal. Amongst these was the process of differentiating the multiplicity of nuanced blacks needed to achieve a sense of the volume and texture of the black blanket. I also enjoyed discovering how the two white chairs in charcoal can be depicted in quite a similar manner and yet reveal remarkably different feelings.
The few additional still lives and portrait reveal the beginnings of movements towards abstraction. All of which happened in the studio.
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