Sarah Abercrombie is a contemporary British artist who combines traditional printmaking techniques. Her work explores a mediative approach and observes quiet landscapes.
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 London and the South East, 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 prints that explore a meditative approach to contemporary printmaking. 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 is on the committee for Suffolk Open Studios and guest artist at Artworks Annual Exhibition at the historic Blackthorpe Barn in the heart of rural Suffolk. Looking ahead to 2027, Abercrombie will be focusing on observational drawing, imagination, and printmaking on the Royal Drawing School’s Online Drawing Development Year.
Abercrombie uses relief woodblock, intaglio collagraph and planographic photolithography printmaking processes from drawings and within circles to create print landscapes that observe and notice the dialogue between the land and sky, the ephemeral changes of shifting light and the movement of elements throughout days and seasons. She’s looking for balance and grounding in the complexity of our ever-changing world, absorbing feelings of calmness and clarity. Using colour and mark making she likes to recall quiet moments and intangible aspects of being through layers of ink.
Exhibitions and Fairs
Now on:
Autumn Exhibition, Suffolk Open Studios, Bury St Edmunds Guildhall. 17th - 25th October.
Coming Up:
Open Studio, Suffolk Open Studios, Elmswell, Suffolk. 14th & 15Th November.
Past Exhibitions:
2026
Print East Print Fair, The Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Artworks, Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Wavy at Folk, Folk, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Summer Exhibition, Suffolk Open Studios, Old Theatre, Framlingham, Suffolk.
In Relief, The Old Court House, Framlingham Library, Suffolk.
East 26 Summer Exhibition, The Bank Gallery, Eye, Suffolk.
Sir John Hurt Art Awards, Holt Art Projects, St Andrew’s, Holt, Norfolk.
Screenprint, Elmswell Library, Suffolk.
St Mary’s Art Exhibition, St Mary’s Church, Debenham, Suffolk.
Open Studios, Suffolk Open Studios, Elmswell, Suffolk.
Spring Launch, Suffolk Open Studios, Holton Lodge Barn, Halesworth, Suffolk.
Art In The Barn, Mid-Suffolk Art Collective, Haughley Park Barn, Suffolk.
Jackson’s Art Prize Longlist (online exhibitition).
Spring Exhibition, The Ferini Art Gallery, Pakefield, Suffolk.
2025
New Buckenham Art Exhibition, New Buckenham, Norfolk.
Wavy at Folk, Folk, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Winter Exhibition, Suffolk Open Studios, The Old Goods Shed, Sudbury, Suffolk.
Lookout Art Fair, St Barnabas Church, Cambridge.
Print East Print Fair, The Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Art On The Prom, Felixstowe, Suffolk.
Summer Exhibition, Holton Lodge Barn, Halesworth, Suffolk.
East 25 Summer Exhibition, The Bank Gallery, Eye, Suffolk.
Open Studios, Suffolk Open Studios, Elmswell, Suffolk.
Spring Launch, Suffolk Open Studios, 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.
Artist Teachers, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, Norfolk.
Light & Form, The Bank Gallery, Eye, Suffolk.
The Great Sublime, Fox Yard Studio, Stowmarket, Suffolk.
Printmaking Exhibition, Ironbridge Fine Arts, Shropshire.
Tiny Art Around Town, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Overture, Shrubbery Farm Shed, Mickfield, Suffolk.
