Woman with Jasmine Flowers - Art by Sarah Myers

Woman with Jasmine Flowers, Sarah Myers
Charcoal, conte, paper-cut and collage

    She looks out from the storm of perfumed jasmine flowers, blooms that blow down and across her and are caught in her stillness. Her face with its intense but motionless glance is reminiscent of ancient portraits from late Rome or from Fayum, but she and the fragile blossoms are clearly from own our time.

      Cut-out, collage, 'decoupe', 'mixed media' are all names for the techniques used; a charcoal and conte portrait was sketched and then cut from brown paper and applied to a sheet of soft grey; white bristol makes her large, handsome collar and the jasmine flowers hovering around her are simple stars of white paper, fastened down lightly.

Woman with Jasmine Flowers, detail.  Sarah Myers
Mixed media.

Autumn - Art by Sarah Myers

Autumn, Sarah Myers
Cut paper and line-drawing in charcoal.

      Autumn with her tall basket of fruit, a wreath of windblown leaves crowning her dark hair, gazes forward; her dignified profile forms a contrast to the firm lattice and heaped fruit of the bounty she holds. This artwork was created from three kinds of paper; charcoal line-drawing stating most of the shapes, which were then hand-cut and assembled in collage.

Autumn, Sarah Myers.  Detail.

Autumn, Sarah Myers.  Close-up of wreath.

Autumn, Sarah Myers.  Detail of basket with fruits.

Winter - Art by Sarah Myers

Winter, Sarah Myers
Charcoal and cut paper

Do you see the cold wind blowing, the comforting ruffle of a great coat collar, the flying feathers clasped to a hat, as the lady glances back across her shoulder? Here is my paper cut-out, or decoupe, of Winter. It was made to be a counterpart to my earlier piece of 'Summer', and I finish it at a time when a mild winter has already fled from the desert. But perhaps my friends on the other side of the equator will see the coming season, and those north of me, who are weary of long wind and cold, will see that even this lady in her warm coat is turning away as if in farewell…

Winter, Sarah Myers.  Detail of face.

Winter, Sarah Myers.  Detail of hat and feathers.

Summer - Art in cut paper and charcoal by Sarah Myers

Summer, Sarah Myers
Charcoal, cut paper

Pomegranates, palm-fronds, jasmine stars, grapes and various flowers wreathe around the head of a personification of Summer. A charcoal drawing with cut paper ornamentation of brown, black and white.

Summer, detail
Sarah Myers