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Sarah Jane Szikora...Artist
Coming from a large family Sarah Jane Szikora was constantly looking for ways to amuse herself and soon discovered that drawing and painting were by far her favourite. Sarah Jane also made frequent trips abroad to her father's native Hungary, encountering for the first time the larger than life ladies and gents who were probably the earliest influence for the characters in her paintings.
Although Sarah Jane Szikora found school to be an unpleasant experience Sarah enjoyed art and music classes, so it was natural for Sarah Jane to pursue an artistic career. Sarah Jane Szikora completed a foundation course at Harrogate College of Art where she studied a range of subjects, including photography, sculpture and graphics. During this time Sarah Jane maintained a lifelong interest in simple drawing, and always enjoyed the life class most.
From Harrogate Sarah Jane Szikora went on to study illustration at Cleveland College of Art. The same interest in studying the human form continued and led to the development of the extreme figures in Sarah Jane's work.
Sarah Jane Szikora left Cleveland, taking with her a HND with distinction and a handful of paintings, but Sarah Jane didn't yet know how to turn her studies into a job, so the painting went on the backburner.
In 1991 Sarah Jane Szikora set up a business called "Wild Thing" hand making papier-mache models, ranging from twisted newspaper sheep to 7-foot giraffes. These were sold from a shop in York, and kept Sarah Jane busy for a couple of years until Sarah decided to display the work she had left college with. The big girls with attitude sold surprisingly quickly and encouraged Sarah Jane to concentrate on painting instead as Sarah Jane's chosen career.
Since then Sarah Jane Szikora has been painting non-stop. Along the way Sarah Jane's partner took responsibility for publishing her work as greetings cards until Sarah Jane found an agent who in turn introduced her to Washington Green and Halcyon Gallery in 1995.
Sarah Jane Szikora has since had her work published as limited edition prints, greetings cards and jigsaws as well as having various exhibitions over the last 4 years.
See below for Limited Edition Prints by Sarah Jane Szikora |
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