Sophie Crockett
“Fairy tales read, an obsession with horses, cycling barefoot, paraffin stoves in the bathroom, grabbing at eels in streams, dirt floors at the old lady’s cottage. Magic and tradition. Legend and storytelling. Horses, horses, horses. All this.”
Charcoal and pastel on canvas.
Sealed and varnished.
In handmade frame
2024
Made during her residency at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout.
Sophie Crockett
Sophie Crockett (b.1969) was returned from a sea-going childhood to a rural life and a village school in Suffolk. Adventuring in the nearby verges and lanes of Cretingham, she grew up around animals and nature and the last of old Suffolk traditions and farm life. A yearning for the simple ties of a rural existence and the stories and legends of human history have driven so much of her creative output.
“Fairy tales read, an obsession with horses, cycling barefoot, paraffin stoves in the bathroom, grabbing at eels in streams, dirt floors at the old lady’s cottage. Magic and tradition. Legend and storytelling. Horses, horses, horses. All this.”
Sophie is a self-taught oil painter and has a studio near Aldeburgh in Suffolk