Drawing and printmaking is the way I observe the landscape around me and make sense of the world. From initial marks on paper I create original prints that explore a mindful and meditative approach to contemporary printmaking.
About
Sarah Abercrombie is an artist printmaker living and working in Suffolk, UK. She studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London and Art Pedagogy and Contemporary Practice at Goldsmiths University in London. Following a career as an artist teacher, Abercrombie returned to her creative and historical roots as an artist printmaker in the East of England. As a member of Suffolk Open Studios she will be holding open weekends at her art studio this June and will be a guest artist at Artworks Annual Exhibition at the historic Blackthorpe Barn in the heart of rural Suffolk this September.
For me, observing the landscape is noticing the dialogue between the land and sky, the ephemeral changes of shifting light and the movement of elements throughout days and seasons. I’m looking for balance and grounding in the complexity of our ever-changing world, absorbing feelings of calmness and clarity. Using colour and mark making I like to recall these quiet moments and intangible aspects of experience through printmaking and layers of ink. Ink, with its characteristics of immediacy, opacity and translucency provides me with a visual language that falls between vibrancy and subtlety, presence and absence.
Exhibitions and Fairs
Current Exhibitions
Suffolk Open Studios Spring Launch, Holton Lodge Barn, Halesworth. 14th May - 25th May.
Screenprint, Elmswell Library, Elmswell, Suffolk. 14th May - 25th June.
Upcoming Exhibitions & Fairs
Art Trail, Mid-Suffolk Art Collective & Suffolk Open Studios, Mid-Suffolk. 6th & 7th June.
Open Studios, Suffolk Open Studios, Elmswell, Suffolk. 13th & 14th June.
Artworks, Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. 12th - 27th September.
Wavy at Folk, Folk, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. 27th September.
2026
Art In The Barn, Mid-Suffolk Art Collective, Haughley Park Barn, Suffolk.
Spring Exhibition, The Ferini Art Gallery, Pakefield, Suffolk.
New Buckenham Art Exhibition, New Buckenham, Norfolk.
Curated Hang, Inkpot Gallery, St Mary’s Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire.
2025
Wavy at Folk, Folk, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Suffolk Open Studios at Claire, The Old Goods Shed, Sudbury, Suffolk.
Lookout Art Fair, St Barnabas Church, Cambridge.
PrintEast Print Fair, The Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Art On The Prom, Felixstowe, Suffolk.
Late Summer Exhibition, Holton Lodge Barn, Halesworth, Suffolk.
East 25 Summer Exhibition, The Bank Gallery, Eye, Suffolk.
Open Studios, Suffolk Open Studios, Elmswell, Suffolk.
Suffolk Open Studios Spring Launch, The Old Theatre, Framlingham, Suffolk.
Spring Up, The Ferini Art Gallery, Pakefield, Suffolk.
Light & Flux, The Bank Gallery, Eye, Suffolk.
Print Exhibition, Gainsborough House, Sudbury, Suffolk.
2024
Winter Art Exhibition, St Mary’s Church, Brettenham, Suffolk.
Tostock Art Show, St Andrews Church, Suffolk.
The Little Makers Market, Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Artist Teachers, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, Norfolk.
Light & Form, The Bank Gallery, Eye, Suffolk.
2023
The Great Sublime, Fox Yard Studio, Stowmarket, Suffolk.
Printmaking Exhibition, Ironbridge Fine Arts, Shropshire.
Tostock Art Show, St Andrews Church, Suffolk.
Tiny Art Around Town, Various Locations, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Overture, Shrubbery Farm Shed, Mickfield, Suffolk.
