About: Sarah Anderson

My book, The Lost Art of Silence – Reconnecting to the Power and Beauty of Quiet is going to be published by Shambhala in the US in December 2023 (distributed in the UK by Penguin/Random House) – over the next few months I’ll be publishing some enticing quotes …

Ages since I’ve posted … my exhibition back in November went very well … I went to New York soon after it finished, and was lucky to be there during that small window that opened before Omicrom hit! I managed to go to lots of exhibitions including the temporarily housed Frick Madison in what was…
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I am having an exhibition at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill from November 2nd-6th – it includes some of the many paintings and collages I did during lockdown. Painting (and living opposite Battersea Park) were two of the things that have kept me sane during the last 18 months.

Having recently been in conversation with Hisham Matar at Hatchards, I then wrote this piece for the Biographers’ Club website earlier this week: The Return is the account of Matar’s return to Libya in 2012 in search of his father who had been abducted from Egypt in 1990 by Qaddafi’s henchmen and sent to the…
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I’m just back from two weeks painting in Provence – a mixture of good conversation, delicious food and HARD  work! Every day we would be driven to a local site where we would spend the morning – over the two weeks we visited Murs, Joucas, Goult, Saturnin les Apt, Saignon, Viens and Simone la Rotunde,…
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