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. Drawing and printmaking is the way she observes the landscape around her and makes sense of the world. From initial marks on paper, Abercrombie creates original prints utilising relief printmaking with some intaglio and planographic processes focusing on connecting themes of mindfulness and meditation through contemporary printing. Ink, with its characteristics of immediacy, opacity and translucency provides her with a visual language that falls between vibrancy and subtlety, presence and absence. Abercrombie’s work has been exhibited in the UK and predominantly in The East of England. She is a member of Suffolk Open Studios and Gainsborough House Print Workshop.
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.
Exhibitions and Fairs
2026
Curated Hang, Inkpot Gallery, St Mary’s Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire. December 2025 -
New Buckenham Art Exhibition, New Buckenham, Norfolk. 3rd April - 6th April.
Spring Exhibition, The Ferini Art Gallery, Pakefield, Suffolk. 3rd April - 4th May.
Mid-Suffolk Art Collective Art Trail, Suffolk Open Studios, Suffolk. 6th & 7th June.
Open Studios, Suffolk Open Studios, Elmswell, Suffolk. 13th & 14th June.
Wavy at Folk, Folk, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. 27th September.
2025
Wavy at Folk, Folk, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Suffolk Open Studios at Claire, The Old Goods Shed, Sudbury, Suffolk.
Winter Exhibition, All Saints Church, Cambridge.
Lookout Art Fair, St Barnabas Church, Cambridge.
PrintEast Print Fair, The Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Art On The Prom, Felixstowe, Suffolk.
Tostock Art Show, St Andrews Church, Suffolk.
Late Summer Exhibition, Holton Lodge Barn, Halesworth, Suffolk.
Expo ’25, Designer Makers 21, Diss, Norfolk.
Summer Exhibition, Beyond the Image Gallery, Fornham Walks, 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.
Spring Exhibition, The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk.
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.
