Artist/Sculptor/tutor/cartoonist
Sally Fisher trained in Fine Art at Amersham Art School in the UK in the early seventies, and has worked consistently as an artist/illustrator/sculptor and teacher throughout her life.
She also worked as a cartoonist for the Daily Mail for 38 years.
Sally is a qualified Adult Tutor and has been teaching since 1998.
She taught Anatomy Life and Movement, Still Life & Composition and Water Colour classes for several years at The Working Men’s College for Men and Women in Camden, founded by Ruskin, where The OFSTED inspection gave her grade 1 for her classes there.
She has taught Life Drawing and all other media courses and workshops around the country and at Marlborough College Summer School for 8 years. And taught regular Life Drawing classes at Primrose Hill community centre
For many years Sally ran and taught various courses at Harbour House in Devon from Life Drawing to exploring different media. She also does demo’s and workshops for various Art Groups in Devon and around the South East and London.
Sally has produced a daily cartoon since 1986 for the astrologer Jonathan Cainer, in various newspapers, chiefly The Daily Mail, illustrating his top piece both in the paper and on his website, which her son Oscar Cainer now writes. She has done cartoons for four Berlitz language books. She also produced a monthly cartoon strip called Colonel Mosby about a donkey and rabbit for The Horse Exchange magazine. She worked for CAFOD producing political moral illustrations.
Sally paints from life, and en plein air engaging with her subject matter and feeling of ‘place’. She has a strong experimental theme and fascination with reality and ‘between worlds’ and our mortality. She uses oils outside, acrylic for abstration and vibrant colour and all media constantly challenging herself to find new ways to use old mediums. She captures mood feeling and likes to expresses movement and light!
She has been a regular contributor to ‘The Artist’ magazine 2000 – 2006 writing many articles on life drawing, pastels and acrylics. She has a chapter in Harper Collins “Water Colour Problem Solver” on watercolour nudes.
There are too many to list individually.
Sally has exhibited widely both solo and in mixed exhibitions in London, Winchester, and Devon and as far as Kuwait. Her work has regularly been shown at the following venues:
1988 Five Women Artists Plus
1989 – 2000 United Artist Exhibition, Westminster, London
2000, 2005 The Highgate Gallery – solo show
2000 Llewellyn Gallery, ‘Not the Royal Academy’
2000 – 2008 (annually) The Winchester Summer Show, St Cross
2002 – 2008 Mall Galleries Pastel Show (6 times)
2007 Mall Galleries RBA
2002 – Harbour House – Colour and Light
2003 – 2008 Salcombe Summer Art Show, Main Gallery and Little Studio.
2004 Kingsbridge Arts Trail
2002 – 2005 Kuwait National Gallery – British Studio Arts (BSA)
2004 El Cid, Blue Fig Café, Kuwait.
2004 – 2010 – Harbour House Gallery, Devon,
2007 – 2010 Artspaces and the Annie Bowie Gallery, Totnes
2009 The Foxhole Artists, Dartington
2010 Hope Cove Gallery, Devon
2011 – 2021 – Oxford Art Society exhibitions
2012 – 2019 The Black Gallery, Tring.
2020 – COVID
2022 – 2024 No14 High St Pop up Gallery, Woodstock
2021 – 2025 Salcombe Art Exhibition,
2024 SHORT LISTED (4/1800) FOR MUIR TRUST Portrait residency, Aylesbury Museum.
Inspired by Rennie Mackintosh’s work the course aims to focus on composition by drawing free, loose line to ‘dip and draw’ with water soluble coloured pencils and delicate watercolour washes. Exercises to guide your hand and eye into creating this...
