Sally McDonald is a Sydney based Painter. She is represented by the Moda Rouge Gallery

Here is a little more about her and some of here amazing work.

Sally McDonald started to paint at the age of 32 in February 2004.

As an adult mother and wife, she was searching for a personal balance, an emotional outlet of expression. Choosing the vehicle of abstract expressionism enables her to express emotively her inner responses to her environment. A highly visual child, she was obsessed by colour, form, shape and the thrill of manipulating these elements through drawing and painting. She was constantly ‘scribbling’ and leaving her mark on surfaces throughout her home environment.

Inspired by the talents of The New York School of Abstract Expressionist including Rothko, Pollock and Motherwell, Sally also draws on contemporary Australian artists John Olsen, Dale Frank, Matthew Johnson and Marnie Wark. She views the world around her as a revelation, through the context of colour, texture, movement, light and how she can translate emotions onto canvas and engage our senses.

“It’s hard for me to articulate my ‘inspiration’ only to say that I trust my own intuitive ability to respond to my spontaneous impulses”.

Being relatively new to the art world has not hindered Sally from enjoying commercial success. She has sold numerous large scale works through galleries in Paddington and Woollahra. Often working with acrylic, her vibrant, highly textural displays feature overlays of metallic pigments and mixed media that have earned her a name for herself amongst interior designers and specialist design outlets in Sydney. After living in Sydney, Sally now resides in her hometown of Newcastle where she is involved in an ongoing body of work titled ‘Homecoming’.

“After living in Sydney for 12 years, I have come home. ‘Homecoming’ encapsulates the images and impressions of my early surroundings. Newcastle. A town of energy…both industrialised and natural. Raw. I draw on parallels between Newcastle’s ‘revitalisation’ and my own. This ‘body of works’ focuses on the re-visiting of familiar places … my past. Returning to the environment which has influenced my perception of colour, shape, form, movement and light. The ebb and flow effect of leaving and returning. An amalgam of water and steel. A production of energy realised. The circle: a universal symbol of unity and wholeness also expresses energy which is a prevalent theme throughout my work.”