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Sally Higgens harks from the wilds of Wandsworth in South London. She was born and raised south of the river and has been a painter in South London for over a decade. She studied life drawing at Riversley School of Fine Arts in Chelsea and then a foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art where Sally specialised in Fine Arts, Sculpture and Painting. She was a painter in Brighton for four years then, after graduating from Brighton University Art School in 2003 she embarked on her career as an International Fine Art Painter in London. She has exhibited at galleries in London, Amsterdam, Brighton, Auckland and across New Zealand. Sal has produced several large scale commissioned artworks. These include commissions for Wimbledon Cannizaro Park Open Air Theatre, Quinton Scott Estate Agents in their Kingston and Wimbledon brances and Epsom Playhouse Foyer boasts four large paintings by Sal.
Sally Higgens is an award winning painter who has been a finalist in the New Zealand National Portrait Award, Waikato Society of Arts Award and Molly Morpeth Canaday Award amongst others. She won the Inaugural Empire National Youth Art Award in 2008. She is recognised for the strength of her drawing, evident in the confidence and emotion of her line. She is an exciting and talented emerging artist now based in Warwickshire in the West Midlands. She is currently painting in Leamington Spa.
Sal is a member of Leamington Studio Artists, Art Alert Nuneaton, Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists and Coventry Artspace. She will be exhibiting in Wawickshire Arts Week 2010 in July. Sal Higgens has been selected to exhibit at Compton Verney Art Gallery in July 2010 as part of the Warwickshire Arts Week exhibitions.
