Sally Wakelin – Studies in Creativity
Paintings, drawings, sculpture and writing
I found several more in the series of spot paintings I made back in 2011. These two are my favourites. They are based on mixing watercolour pigment washes in several strengths and then dropping, using a pipette, onto blotting paper in sequences. The colours were not mixed in the pots, they simply merged a little once dropped onto the paper.
Boone’s Chapel stands just a few minutes walk from my home, it was built in 1682 as a private almshouse chapel and is one of just two Grade 1 listed buildings in Lewisham. My eye has often been drawn to it when walking past or on the bus, this study has its faults but it hopefully shows some of the spirit of the building.
Heather’s images are influenced and underpinned by her work as a forensic examiner. There are dark undercurrents and telling imagery of crime scenes remembered or perhaps the stuff of brain activity during sleep. In a lighter mood are images of the forensic examination of a friend’s face and the somehow nostalgic washing line full of drying rolls of film, the nude statue amusingly taking her place in the line-up.
Her work is developing through themes of her professional and private life, deeply emotional and yet her natural wry humour is still firmly evident.
This graceful building is at 477B Lawnmarket, on the right side as one looks up to the castle. It is a preserved 17th C merchant’s house, rstored and furnished by the National Trust for Scotland.
Sally Wakelin - Studies in Creativity 
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