Sally MacCabe is a professional artist, living in Cornwall where she has her Studio Gallery and also teaches art dayschools.

Since moving from Woodstock in Oxfordshire to St Ives in 2000 Sally has concentrated on her contemporary abstract paintings, many of which are influenced by living in a house which overlooks the whole sweep of St Ives Bay and Porthminster Beach directly below. This is evident in her usual palette of subtle blues and greys which reflect the constant changing light and weather that passes across the bay.

Recently a new series of work has been developed based on Venice which features arches, windows and distressed walls. Many paintings, however, evolve from the pure joy of playing with layers of paint and mixed media on various surfaces and feature applied papers, fragments of letters and texts which create a rich and interesting surface and from which many of the paintings’ titles are taken.