Sarah Tucker

 

Sarah is one of Britain's foremost artists working in batik. She concentrates on landscapes and seascapes, contrasting the fluidity of water with the solidity of rock formations.

Sarah says:
"My aim is the transformation of colour perception resulting from the endless variations of the batik process. I work on cotton lawn, silk and certain Chinese and hand-made papers. I sometimes use a canting, but often prefer to work with brushes and with other techniques for applying the wax - the simpler the better. I hand-paint dyes regularly, but dip-dyeing remains crucial to my work; it means that the colours are constantly changed, muted and transformed by the immediacy of the dye bath. I particularly enjoy the marbling effect created as the dye penetrates cracks in the wax. Batik for me means colour and change."