About the Artist

Sally Caswell

Artist’s Statement

In the last two summers, while enjoying the opportunity on Mondays to paint en plein

air with colleagues on the upper Cape, I have rediscovered the unparalleled pleasure of

painting the unique beauty of the light and color of Cape Cod - a one-and-a-half to two

hour drive from home. It is one of the many land and seascape subjects that I paint.

I am primarily an outdoor painter. A look around my studio reveals that 90% of my

drawings and paintings are done from life in places that have a deep personal

connection for me. My family origins are in Jamestown, RI, and its many facets continue

to inspire my paintings as I go there often to paint en plein air. “High Tide at Wetherill”

was painted there. Colorado and Northern California also share family roots. The marsh

paintings are done in my back yard that overlooks a one-hundred acre salt marsh. It is a

subject that I have painted in every mood, every time of day, and every season; yes,

even bundled up with my easel in the snow, painting watercolors. Both my home and

studio overlook this natural sanctuary that inspires me and my work every day.

My means of expression are the traditional media of painting, drawing and

printmaking, such as intaglio and stone lithography. I am at home with the watercolor

medium and enjoy its jewel-like colors of transparencies and glazes. In oils and acrylics,

on paper or canvas, I continue working in the tradition of glazes over ground colors.

For me, these media offer a warmth and sensuousness relating to Earth and humanity.

Since the early 1970's the complexities of form have fascinated me. Grounded in the

textures derived from the Abstract Expressionists, my work reflects the spirit of the

landscape, its richness of form and color, textures and patterns of nature. The frequent

presence of water in my paintings, its reflections and fluidity, its necessity for life, holds

for me the universal symbolic reflection of spirituality, much in the philosophical

traditions of the Luminists.

My home is New England, near the ocean. My art reflects my observations and

experiences of a long kinship with her traditions and her people. It is like the place. Its

space is intimate and complex. Its landscape and people are craggy. There is a tenacity

through struggle, a practicality and a spare but eternal Faith.

©2020 Sally Caswell

Sally Caswell Bio

Sally Caswell is an internationally collected artist whose work has shown in solo shows

in several galleries and museums including Providence Art Club, Attleboro Museum,

Bierstadt Gallery, Community College of Rhode Island Gallery, Nicole Saul-Kogut Gallery,

Gallery 401, South Wharf Gallery, Nantucket; Spencer Gallery, and RI Watercolor Society;

and in invitational and juried exhibitions at Bristol Art Museum, Cape Cod Art Museum,

Cape Cod Art Center, Chautauqua Center For The Visual Arts, Copley Society of Art,

Duxbury Art Complex Museum, The Foothills Art Center, Golden Colorado;

G.W.V. Smith Museum, Japan Watercolor Society, Tokyo and Saku City, Japan;

Tower Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Newport Art Museum,

New Haven Paint and Clay Club, Pittsburgh Center For The Arts; Silvermine Gallery, and others.

She has won many major awards. She is a Copley Artist, a Signature and Lifetime Member

of RI Watercolor Society, and a Cape Cod Art Center Master Artist. Her work has been

published in "American Artist Magazine", and she illustrated three books,

including the frontispiece of The Trident, Yearbook of the United States War College,

Newport, RI, 1984 Centennial Edition who purchased the drawing for its Museum.

Sally earned a BFA in Painting and Illustration from Massachusetts College of Art,

Boston, where she studied Art History, Design, Anatomy, Life Drawing, Painting and

Watercolor in the tradition of the Boston School with Edward Movitz, Calvin Burnett,

Arturo Corsini, George Lockwood, David Berger and Lawrence Kupferman.

Later she earned an MATequivalency in Ceramics at RI College, and MFA in Painting

and Printmaking at UMASS Dartmouth, where she had a Teaching Fellowship and

was awarded Distinguished Thesis.

Ms. Caswell's oils, watercolors and intaglio and Stone lithography prints are in private

collections throughout the United States, in Canada, and Europe; and in corporate

collections, such as AutoZone, Memphis, TN; RI Hospital and Hasbro Children's

Hospital; Blue Cross of Boston, Major Medical East; The Hartford Group, Rockaway,

NJ; Nantucket Goldsmiths; and Citizens Bank, Providence and Pawtuxet, RI; some of

which are commissioned works.

Her teaching experience includes over 8 years teaching Advanced Watercolor, Painting,

and Design at Rhode Island School of Design, C.E. and Summer Session; 15 years at

Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, Watercolor and Drawing; and 24 years as

Adjunct Professor of Art, teaching Color Theory, Drawing (including Life Drawing),

Printmaking and Design, and for 7 of those years, she was Gallery Director at Knight

and Flanagan Campus, respectively. She is listed in Marquis "Who's Who in American

Art" and was honored with the "Marquis Who's Who, Lifetime Achievement Award" in

2018.