Sarah Jayne Fell

Sarah Jayne Fell (b.1986) is a Cape Town-based artist, whose primary art medium is painting. Her work is an exploration of personal myth through expressionism and process art, in an ever-present ode to the interplay of her two muses: colour and light. Subject matter is both personal and universal, reflecting on the human condition and personal experience, drawing on images and ideas derived from dreams and journaling, followed by freestyle painting or digital collage and culminating in poetry – with the artwork ultimately reflecting a personal process that is both cathartic and autobiographical.

Her artistic journey began as a very young child, creating art and pottery in her mother’s ceramic studio in rural KwaZulu-Natal, resulting in a lifelong passion for art. She was awarded the matric art prize at Durban Girls’ College in 2003 for practical art and went on to study creative writing, media & communications, philosophy and English literature to fulfil a love for the broader arts and culture. Moving to Cape Town in 2008 to become editor of One Small Seed magazine, she went on to specialise in digital media and communications, and has run a content studio since 2014.

As a counterpoint to the digital world she has all the while produced art in the mediums of painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, digital art and ceramics, attending art classes, painting workshops, live figure drawing and process art groups at Ruth Prowse, Bright Studio and A Star. She has taken part in group exhibitions at the KZNSA, with ANON. Pop Up and the Zeitz MOCAA (At Home, 2021) . She now paints from her home art studio in Kommetjie, Cape Town.