Working in print and paint, Sally Weatherill uses the palimpsest and the inevitable variation within manual repetition to explore the themes of transience, time and memory. Although the specific materials and processes she employs vary between printmaking and painting, Sally creates both types of work over an extended period of time using repeated processes which fall into two opposing categories - constructive and destructive. These categories can be seen as symbolic of the tension between the man-made and the natural, the conscious and unconscious, the structured and unpredictable.

In Sally’s paintings, multiple layers of paint, paper and pastes are applied and then partially removed or obscured; the final work emerges slowly and meditatively, the result of many small decisions and the process itself. In printmaking she is currently focusing on etching and builds the plate by creating and then obliterating images.

Sally’s work is characterized by openness and possibility. She works intuitively and freely, embracing an unknown outcome. There is always the potential that a work might undergo further transformation in the future. The way a work is displayed is not fixed either; this is true of the orientation of the work and the specific arrangement of works within a series.

Openness extends to the viewer too. The palimpsestic layers she creates, although thematically linked to time and memory, work visually to create uncertainty and invite an open reading.