Sarah Gillespie was born in Hampshire in 1963. She trained in Paris (1981-82) and at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University (1982-85). She was awarded the Egerton Coghill prize for Landscape Painting and the Elizabeth Greenshield Award for figurative painting. Now living and working in the South Hams, her paintings mainly focus on the coastline around Devon and Cornwall, in particular West Penwith and the area around the Salcombe estuary, as well as the west coast of Ireland. Her meticulous observation of the subtle effects of light on the landscape captures the overwhelming sense of grandeur of the natural world. She has exhibited her work in galleries in the UK and abroad, including Gallery Revel, New York, USA; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; 6 Chapel Row, Bath; Coves Quay Gallery, Devon; Ariel Centre, Totnes; Thompsons Gallery, Cotswolds and London; New Street Gallery, Plymouth: Waterhouse & Dodd, London.