SARAH MONCRIEFF
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I have recently turned to my home city of Oxford for my subject matter, a city renowned for its architecture and famous scenes. I have taken these famous scenes, (Magdalen Bridge, The Botanical Gardens, Punts, The Bridge of Sighs, The Radcliffe Camera, The Oxford Skyline) and dispensed with the romantic view of them. Instead I have painted them as a passer by might glimpse them on their way to work.

The street lamp, the bollard and the barrier are as much a part of the scene as the classic building itself. The Oxford skyline doesn’t always appear in perfect sunlight, it is still there on a cold, stormy winter’s day. In winter the punts are all moored on the river, redundant. The Bridge of Sighs which teems with tourists through the summer months is a solitary and ignored sight in the winter months.

I hope my paintings make the viewer look at a familiar scene in a new light and in turn appreciate their own surroundings all the more.

Sarah Moncrieff

 


Oxford Skyline

The Bridge of Sighs, Oxford

The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

Trinity College, Oxford
The Garden Quad

Balliol College, Oxford
The Fellow's Garden and Chapel

Oriel College, Oxford
First Quad