{"title":"Sarah Jeffries | Contemporary Fine Art","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eSarah Jeffries (b. 1979) is a British artist born and based in coastal Kent whose practice has been recognised internationally across the UK, Europe, and the United States. Trained at Buckinghamshire New University before progressing to the MA Painting programme at the Royal College of Art in 2004 — one of the most rigorous and prestigious postgraduate painting courses in the world — she has built a body of work that has found audiences well beyond the British gallery context in which it was formed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eHer exhibition record reflects a practice of genuine international reach: four solo shows across the UK, Belgium, and Italy; group exhibitions in Berlin, New York, Milan, and London; and several two-person shows across the UK. Her work has been featured in Vogue, the Guardian, Artist \u0026amp; Illustrators Magazine, and Flash Art Journal — a combination of mainstream and specialist art press coverage that speaks to work operating at multiple levels simultaneously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe coastal Kent landscape that surrounds her studio informs her practice in ways that are felt rather than literally depicted — the specific quality of light and atmosphere on the north Kent coast, the relationship between land and sea and sky in a landscape that changes constantly with the weather and the tide, present in the sensibility of the work rather than its subject matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eAvailable through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sarah-jeffries-the-underbelly-of-following-the-narrative-original-oil-painting","title":"Sarah Jeffries | The Underbelly of Following the Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Jeffries\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Underbelly of Following the Narrative\u003cbr\u003eOriginal oil painting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Jeffries works with oil paint in a tradition of British figurative painting that combines technical rigour with psychological depth. The Underbelly of Following the Narrative is among her most conceptually ambitious titles — a phrase that names something most people recognise but rarely articulate: the discomfort, the compromise, the loss of self that can accompany the decision to follow the accepted story rather than the true one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe painting embodies this tension formally as well as thematically. Jeffries' handling of oil paint — the surface built through sustained application, the image emerging from beneath the paint as much as sitting on top of it — creates a visual field in which the stated subject and something more elusive coexist. This is a painting about looking beneath the surface, executed in a medium that rewards exactly that kind of looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal oil painting\u003cbr\u003e\nCertificate of Authenticity\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Jeffries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50996612759892,"sku":null,"price":5500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0418\/6196\/files\/sarah-jeffries-underbelly-narrative-original-oil-canvas-ascot.jpg?v=1770210619"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0418\/6196\/collections\/Creed_Gallery_-_Artist_-_Sarah_Jeffries.png?v=1770210401","url":"https:\/\/creedgallery.com\/collections\/ascot-sarah-jeffries-contemporary-art.oembed","provider":"Creed Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}