St. Ives Times & Echo September 6th
Sandercock at the Penwith Gallery
I have watched Stephanie Sandercock’s painting grow ever stronger, both visually and in scale over many years. Of importance is her signature style that combines her ‘self personality’ and visual techniques used to create them, which make them immediately recognisable.
Her abstraction is very different from that of the earlier St. Ives Modernist School. Her influences being more geological and organic.
There is an emphasis on high key ‘spiritual colours’, balanced with earth brown, greys, blacks and whites of nature’s palette. Her show is well hung giving her works space to breathe and demonstrates their strength and visual power.
Stephanie is yet another of the wave of younger women who together have become a dominant force in the St. Ives Art Colony in recent years. Her work manages to remain earthed while reaching for the spiritual realms.
John Charles Clark
Stephanie Sandercock’s Imaginary Pathways will continue at the Penwith until September 28. Based at White’s Old Workshops, she is also one of 27 artists taking part in Open Studios throughout the Festival.
Full details at ST.IVES SEPTEMBER FESTIVAL and PENWITH GALLERY
