Sonia Lawson is an artist whose work constantly resonates with the new,
her images transforming a commonplace activity into an epic event.
“If I use the unclothed figure a lot, I am not doing something for ‘Naturism’ nor for nature
itself, but seeking independence from taste and vogue. My interest lies with the positive,
unidentified, warm and vulnerable tribe of homo sapiens, as well as with the untrammelled abstract
principles that exist with or without us or our chosen subject matter.”
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Sonia Lawson
“My interest is to solve the difficulty of using recognisable imagery, yet having the freedom of abstraction,
evading the strictures of narrative, yet still using, say, a boat, a tree, a figure if I want to, and if I use them
it is important to simultaneously try and break the bounds of familiarity.
I think of my ‘workings’ in terms of something quarried and hewn, honed down, built up, not ‘painted’,
although using paint as I see it remains a worthwhile activity in the face of so much conceptual videosim.”
Sonia Lawson
Lone Figure Looking Out to Sea 1995, oil on canvas, 53.3 x 70cm
Herd 1996, oil on canvas, 183 x 163cm
Begging and Praying 1997, oil on canvas, 122 x 91.5cm
She River 2005, oil on canvas, 152 x 120cm
All images: copyright the estate of Sonia Lawson
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Grieving Women 1991, oil on canvas, 153 x 153cm
Boadicea and Her Daughters 1991, oil on canvas, 122 x 152cm
Sonia’s work does not shy away from extremes of joy or sorrow.
Whatever her subject matter, hope remains: a homage to all life.
Towards the end of her life, as the Parkinson’s disease became truly debilitating, Sonia stated about her work:
‘ I have said the message and that’s all I can do. The human race may destroy most things,
but through the rubble some plant will grow, it will have kept the faith.’
Final Work
Later Work
Sonia Lawson
Sonia Lawson
Grieving Women 1991, oil on canvas, 153 x 153cm
Lone Figure Looking Out to Sea 1995, oil on canvas, 53.3 x 70cm
Boadicea and Her Daughters 1991, oil on canvas, 122 x 152cm
Herd 1996, oil on canvas, 183 x 163cm
Begging and Praying 1997, oil on canvas, 122 x 91.5cm
She River 2005, oil on canvas, 152 x 120cm
All images: copyright the estate of Sonia Lawson
CONTACT
Sonia Lawson is an artist whose work
constantly resonates with the new, her
images transforming a commonplace activity
into an epic event.
“If I use the unclothed figure a lot, I am not doing
something for ‘Naturism’ nor for nature itself, but
seeking independence from taste and vogue.
My interest lies with the positive, unidentified, warm
and vulnerable tribe of homo sapiens, as well as with
the untrammelled abstract principles that exist with or
without us or our chosen subject matter.”
“My interest is to solve the difficulty of using
recognisable imagery, yet having the freedom of
abstraction, evading the strictures of narrative, yet still
using, say, a boat, a tree, a figure if I want to, and if I use
them it is important to simultaneously try and break the
bounds of familiarity.
I think of my ‘workings’ in terms of something quarried
and hewn, honed down, built up, not ‘painted’, although
using paint as I see it remains a worthwhile activity in
the face of so much conceptual videosim.”
Sonia’s work does not shy away from extremes of joy or
sorrow. Whatever the subject matter, hope remains: a
homage to all life.
Towards the end of her life, as the Parkinson’s disease
became truly debilitating, Sonia stated about her work:
‘ I have said the message and that’s all I can do.
The human race may destroy most things, but through the
rubble some plant will grow, it will have kept the faith.’
Final Work
SONIA LAWSON
