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Sarah Harvey’s figure portraits are the fruit of an unusual technique. Often seeking out a third person to photograph her bathing in emerald waters, she then pieces together the underwater images to build pictures of herself or another immersed in, and obscured by, liquid and light. These she works up into large canvases that provoke an immediate response of curiosity, of desiring to engage with and discover the person through a fluid confusion of visual cues. In this way, Sarah approaches painting from a most original position: as both a form of hyper-realism, documenting her images with photographic accuracy, and at the same time an exploration into the boundaries of abstract painting, and of where the two disciplines overlap. Her ability to make this a sensual and enticing experience for the viewer marks Sarah out as a truly exciting young painter.
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