Notes of: fairytale’s crux, warning, Western symbology, mysterious yet familiar, allusions, illusions, rural birdsong, the feel of ponyhair, animal mothers

Painting rendered in the home of interior designer Jean Porsche. Photography by Ricardo Labougle.

Sara Knowland (b. 1981 Oxford, UK) completed her BA in Painting at The Slade School of Art, UCL London (2007) and received her Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at RA Schools, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2011). Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include Le Regard Luisant (with Oliver Osborne), curated by Vincent Vanden Bogaard at Galerie Pact, Paris (2020), Mostly Women at Soft Opening, London (2019), Bare Mountain (with Frances Drayson) at The Weston Studio, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018), and FORTY THIRTY THREE at Lima Zulu, London (2017). Group exhibitions include Silent Tourist (curated by Tom Worsfold) at Mackintosh Lane, London (2019), 28th December 1980 at Asylum Studios, Norwich (2018), Let’s See Where We Were? In The Pit Of Despair, at De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2017), Shadows and Monsters at Studio 7, Gasworks Studios, London (2017), Herald Patch at Plaza Plaza, London (2015), and Congratulations on your ugly handwriting at CURA, Rome (2014). Knowland lives and works in London, UK.