Sara Breinlinger
Sara is a London-based painter and collage-maker. After studying Fine Art at Middlesex Polytechnic, Sara went on to gain a PhD in Psychology and later trained as a psychotherapist. For the past twenty years, Sara has combined her art career with her practice as a therapist. Whilst these two parts of her world are distinct, there is much of her art that explores a psychological narrative.
Sara’s works are owned worldwide and have been used by interior designers and art directors in film and tv.
Sara Breinlinger’s works emerge from a construction-like process where questions of time and history are always embedded. Her collages bring into play fragments that once existed in other works. Materials from past and present are mixed together, re-configured
and transformed into new compositions and narratives. Robust organic shapes of bold colour are juxtaposed with hand drawn patterns and scratchy emotionally charged marks. Graph paper intersects, lending a sense of gravity, a timeline, a measurement, something more rational and logical. The elements are torn and scraped back, layered over, marks repeatedly obliterated and resurrected. The built-up surfaces hint at layers underneath, both vestiges of other stories and a reminder of the labour involved in the making. Surface nuance and subtleties of texture bring a rich tactile quality to the works. The results are dynamic abstract compositions that are playful, yet complex.