Sarah Armstrong-Jones

Sarah Armstrong-Jones (b. 1964, London) is known for paintings and works on paper in which landscape, still life and interior subjects are treated with a strong sensitivity to colour, atmosphere and the material qualities of paint. Her work is rooted in observation, but also reflects the effects of memory and the physical process of painting.

Armstrong-Jones studied at Camberwell School of Art before attending the Royal Academy Schools. She was awarded the Winsor & Newton Prize in 1988 and the Creswick Landscape Prize in 1990.

Landscape has remained central to her work, particularly the Sussex Downs and the more rugged terrain of northern Scotland. She has drawn inspiration from the chalk of Sussex, the rock formations of Dunnet Head, and the granite and peat of Caithness, as well as from changing conditions of rain, mist and sunlight. Alongside landscape, interiors, flowers and domestic objects recur throughout her paintings and drawings. She works in oil, watercolour, gouache, ink and collage, and since 2023 has also painted in watercolour and gouache on found slabs of marble.

Patrick Kinmonth has described her paintings as “growing like plants flowering, or landscapes excavated over time from remembered, indistinct horizons”, while William Feaver has written of how “places and things are absorbed into brimming compositions ... realised with such imaginative precision”.

Armstrong-Jones has exhibited regularly at The Redfern Gallery since 1995, with recent solo exhibitions including Pathways in 2019 and Gathering in 2023. Her work has also been selected on numerous occasions for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, as well as for the Discerning Eye and the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.

Sarah Armstrong-Jones is represented by The Redfern Gallery.