About the Artist
Sharon lives and works in Birmingham, UK. She accepts commissions for new work. Some of the work on this site is for sale. contact info@sharonbaker.co.uk for prices.
Sharon’s work draws on imagery from graphic art and popular culture: typefaces, adverts, posters, photography and films. The graphic influence is revealed in her rendering of images in pictorial space, often in a flattened two dimensional format. Found images are starting points for pieces that explore trace and memory. Her work manipulates the original subject matter: images, visual gestures or motifs are selected and shifted from their original context to invite new meanings.
Her creative processes include printmaking, photography, painting, drawing and collage. She uses prints as source material for collages and as elements in paintings. A signature device is the use of tessellation: repeating images within a piece for increased visual impact often using a limited colour palette. The aesthetics of mark making are important along with creating a rhythm and balance through the motifs selected and the colours used. She has experimented with incorporating different materials and decoration within her images such as fabrics, wallpapers and beads to explore how textures can influence the reading of her work.
The Lucky Roars Series.
These images originate from photographs of bill posters in Thailand and are inspired by the signage and street art seen there. The fragments have been enlarged, cropped and distorted to create new compositions and depict two men. The images are dramatic and contain suggestions of noise, violence, excitement and action. The men are shouting, roaring or screaming though we cannot hear them, the volume of their voices and the energy of their pose is expressed in the colours.
Lucky roar 1
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Lucky Roar 4
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Lucky Roar 2
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Lucky Roar 6
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Golden Roar Blue
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