Artworks by Sara Netherway

This current series of works 'Summer Series' has grown out of reflections on family photographs and the way memory reshapes them over time. Whilst drawing on my own family archives, my hope is that the work bridges the personal and the universal, inviting a reflective dialogue between all our past and present lives. Rather than recreate a specific moment, I’m aiming to capture the feeling of warmth, closeness, and hazy imperfection when we think back.

With the photographic reference as a jumping off point, I enjoy painting with bold, sun-soaked colours to capture the joy and distortion of nostalgia. My aim is that the viewer is able to capture the emotional landscape of remembering—how love, joy, and time blur together into something both tender and fleeting.   

Painting with oils in thin layers with bright acrylic underpainting I aim to give a sense of depth to the work, and painting with loose, gestural brush marks giving movement and life.