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April 5- June 1, 2025
H-E-B Gallery
Reception Saturday, April 12th 5-7PM
Painting
Ideas for painting in this Higher Ground exhibition come from Sarah Hull’s experience as an empathetic observer of behavior and as a curious onlooker. this sense of wonder, coupled with a long-standing drawing practice, fueled her decision to leave a professional career as a nurse midwife to paint full time.
Sarah is Interested in how perspective, angles and shadows convey tension and mood, Hull’s the paintings in “Higher Ground,” depict objects, figures and landscapes as they appear from an elevated point of view. She focused specifically on beaches in Florida and New England where she lived. Her intent is to evoke a sense of isolation one might experience from afar; she is intrigued with the juxtaposition between empathy and isolation.
The new series of flower paintings explore how, as urban and suburban consumers, we often expeernece nature out of context in our daily life. Shopping at Traer Joe’s last year and seeing assortments of common flower varieties from around the world sparked ides for observing nature from an intimate, more human level perspective. To ensure the freshest, most abundant choices, the store manager let her know when new shipments were to arrive. Bringing bunches home, she experimented with arranging them on the floor intending to paint from an aerial perspective as before. She began to sense a more intimate connection with these flowers and their riotous colored petals, stems and stamens. At first from human scale perspective looking down, but then beginning to see the up close in micro scale, deep within the intimate abstracted fragment of each single bloom
Sarah Hull, an award-winning (8), Florida-based studio painter who received her Masters in Fine Art Degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA in 2021, with previous art studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, RI and The New York Studio School, NY. Her work has been included in solo, invitational and traveling exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad including Tokyo, Japan, New York, Maryland, California, Minnesota, California, New Mexico, Virginia and Florida.
Sarah Hull, a former certified nurse midwife with a B.S.N. from The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, an M.S.N. from East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, as well as a B.A. from The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, maintains her full-time studio practice in Tampa.