Arts & Culture

Art is in Sandy's blood from using sticks in the mud and spades on the beach, art has always been a part of her life. She knew that she wanted to go to art school from the age of five.

Yorkshire born, Sandy Sykes was born in Yorkshire. She studied BA (Hons) Painting at Leeds Metropolitan University and MA and Fellowship in Printmaking at Wimbledon School of Art and Design.

Essex has been home for the past 30 years, her studio at Bradwell-on-Sea, near Southminster, where she works is an old wooden barn surrounded by fields, the estuary and the sky.

For more than 30 years, Sandy has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally in solo and group shows. In 2006 Sandy had a one month residency at firstsite in Colchester where she produced a series of 20 pencil drawings. Titled 'Dwelling' these drawings of temporary shelter, balloons and kites were exhibited at The Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, Marlborough, Wiltshire.

Sandy's work has now been accepted for a solo show in one of the project spaces at the London Art Fair. You can see her exhibition Drawings and Works on Paper from the 16-20 January at the London Art Fair 2008 at the Business Design Centre, London. Sandy is also exhibiting Margin and Manuscript at the Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, Wiltshire until 7 February.