From 29th September to 2nd October Sax Impey will be exhibiting at Saatchi Gallery on the King’s Road London. Following a long line of solo and group shows by the artist: in a career that has taken him and his work across the globe, as a sailor and as an internationally collected artist. The sea is Sax Impey’s subject as sailor and artist: not one it’s possible to capture, only evoke. You can sense the joy as he grapples with it in his work.
The rigour of Sax’s process – going out onto the ocean in his capacity as a sailor – opens his work to an intensity of experience: available to an artist who paints the sea from the sea, not from the safety of land. Recently he spoke with the gallery about his travels on sea, from his studio in the historic Porthmeor complex in St Ives overlooking the coast.
It’s this stringency of his oil painting practice that allows the sublime to take on features. Out on the sheer waves, like facing a blank canvas, to be alert – it transpires from talking to Sax – is a meditative process. Allowing peripheral vastness to enter into awareness and take centre stage.
