Sam Weeks

Sam Weeks is a British artist who lives and works in Birmingham. She is an abstract painter who uses acrylic paint and various tools to create layered and textured compositions. She is inspired by her own observations, memories, and emotions, as well as by the natural and urban landscapes around her.

Her fine art paintings are personal and authentic, yet have a universal resonance. Her art practice, whether painting an abstract or figurative piece, is intuitive and process-led. She starts painting, often with no specific outcome in mind, but feeling her way with the paint and various mark-making tools, allowing the process to guide her. She uses brushes, yes, but also scrapers, scratching implements, rollers, a detail sander, even cutlery! Anything she can find that will apply or remove paint, is fair game. And she always has a stack of self-printed papers on hand, to incorporate, adding layers of texture and history to the surface, as she goes.

She favours acrylic paint, due to its immediacy, adaptability and the wide scope of combining it with so many other media.

Her studio - a 10' x 14' wooden shed at the end of her garden, is her sanctuary, her laboratory, her soul's true home. In there. with her music or the radio on, to keep her company, she commits fully to expressing her innermost thoughts and ideas, through paint, to those who would look and listen.

Sam belief is that art is communication - it has a story or poem to tell, each painting a new stanza or paragraph, each series a new chapter.