About Me
“…we find that nothing in Layton’s work is frictionless, as the profile of each component is indelibly
grooved and textured by the direction it has taken during its formation.” -Ian Dawson
Through an engagement with materiality and process, Sandy Layton’s work explores recurrent themes of human bodily and emotional experience.
Her practice involves playing spontaneously with different forms which she collages together and it is through this process that unconscious emotions come alive.
There are contrasts and connections in Sandy’s work. The strength of structured forms contrasts with the sensitivity of more curvaceous and softer forms, while the textures and colours of the surfaces of the different elements form a counterpoint that is both a contrast and a connection. Sandy sees these tensions as representing an internal struggle between opposing and mutually dependent forces inside us all. The objects themselves, with their marks and their textures, exhibit not only their process of creation but also the maker’s state of mind.