{"id":23050,"date":"2022-09-24T17:52:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T17:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=23050"},"modified":"2022-12-16T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T12:09:42","slug":"sax-at-saatchi-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/sax-at-saatchi-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sax Impey at Saatchi Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From 29th September to 2nd October\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/artist\/Sax-Impey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sax Impey<\/a>\u00a0will be exhibiting at Saatchi Gallery on the King\u2019s 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\u2019s subject as sailor and artist: not one it&#8217;s possible to capture, only evoke. You can sense the joy as he grapples with it in his work.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rigour of Sax\u2019s process \u2013\u00a0going out onto the ocean in his capacity as a sailor \u2013\u00a0opens his work to an intensity of experience: available to an artist who paints the sea from the sea, not from the safety of land.\u00a0Recently he spoke with the gallery about his travels on sea, from his studio in the historic Porthmeor complex in St Ives overlooking the coast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s 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 \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/is-a-sailor-an-artist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0it transpires from talking to Sax<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 is a meditative process. Allowing peripheral vastness to enter into awareness and take centre stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/artist\/Sax-Impey\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"779\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2022\/09\/24175210\/art_596391641679712_2.05.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2022\/09\/24175210\/art_596391641679712_2.05.jpeg 779w, https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2022\/09\/24175210\/art_596391641679712_2.05-300x231.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp.media.newbloodart.com\/2022\/09\/24175210\/art_596391641679712_2.05-768x592.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sea is Sax Impey\u2019s subject as sailor and artist: not one it&#8217;s possible to capture, only evoke. You can sense the joy as he grapples with it in his work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rigour of Sax\u2019s process \u2013 going out onto the ocean in his capacity as a sailor \u2013 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[453,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investable-artists","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23050"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23962,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23050\/revisions\/23962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}