Sarah Bellini

Instagram: @sarbellini

Email: fineartbybellini@gmail.com

Bellini’s oil paintings represent the overbearing feelings of anxiety and anguish – the subconscious fear that lurks beneath the surface of her skin and lingers in her surroundings. Through the use of a significant melancholic colour palette contrasting with striking symbolism, she aims to juxtapose the feeling of anxiety in comfortable scenarios. Combining portraiture and still life can convey this dream state, where the anxiety loiters.

The deep blues, harsh purples and electric cyans that flow through her oil paintings evoke the sorrowful sensation that lingers through the body in moments of sadness. Childhood experiences of abandonment, loneliness and death allow viewers to understand her anxious interpretation of her surroundings and relate their own narratives to hers. Using photography to capture orchestrated references, which mimic these childhood experiences, Bellini depicts herself in a subconscious state – dreaming of comfort and stillness and disrupting this with harsh and intense colours – breaking the silence that filled the canvas before. This confusion of peace and disorder provokes viewers to question the significance of the colour use and how this affects the narrative being told. 

Bellini aims to create work for those who live through similar experiences for them to relate to. The use of a creative outlet allows her to strive harder to experiment with her techniques: to take her work in the most effective direction; to communicate what she feels and allow for viewers to lose themselves in the visual interpretation of their struggles.