LONDON ART FAIR 26
Business Design Centre, London N1
Rabley Gallery
Stand 12
20 - 25 January 2026
In ‘I saw the Moon, wandering asleep among the reeds’, 2025 the image in Sarah Gillepsie’s new large-scale mezzotint is of a small waterfowl almost hidden in the reeds and tree reflections. It was inspired by a freshwater nature reserve near her home and studio in Devon and motivated by her concerns for the rising sea levels that threaten it’s existence. Gillespie writes “Against the optical grey of backlit Woods, Goat Willows fan out, each of their fine dark lines offering up a last few perfect ovals of bronze. Opposite me the bark of a young sycamore is smooth and umber, the opposing symmetry of her buds as yet un-wrecked by salt and time”.
Only mezzotint can hold such rich tonal beauty, it is a technically challenging 17th Century printmaking technique where the drawing is engraved into copper before inking and printing the plate. There is no doubt that Gillespie brings together fine skills with her understanding and voice for the natural world.
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