CHRISTINA SADLER – THE QUIET BETWEEN
- Jul 9
- 3 min read
Updated: 12 hours ago
SIXTEEN GALLERY |17 – 23 SEPTEMBER
CHRISTINA SADLER PRESENTS THE QUIET BETWEEN
OPEN DAILY | 10am – 5pm
PRIVATE VIEW | Friday 18 September, 6 – 8pm
There are moments that seem ordinary at first: sunlight catching the surface of water, light filtering through trees, the stillness after rain, the changing colour of the sky. Yet these quiet encounters often become the moments we carry with us. They remind us where we are, who we are, and what matters.
The Quiet Between explores the moments that reconnect us to ourselves, moments that feel deeply personal, yet quietly connect us to one another. Through a series of expressive works inspired by light, weather and the natural world, Christina Sadler moves between abstraction and landscape. A suggestion of cloud, a hint of coastline: each painting explores the spaces between memory, place and feeling.
The exhibition has grown from a simple idea: that the moments which feel most personal to us, the light on water, the sky changing at dusk, the stillness after rain, standing at the edge of the sea, often become intertwined with the chapters of our lives. A particular light, a familiar landscape or a quiet moment in nature can hold the memory of a time when we felt joy, love, loss, change or simply needed to pause. These experiences may be deeply personal, yet they are also something we share. We each carry our own memories, feelings and stories, finding meaning in the same quiet moments of the natural world.
The works vary in scale, from small, intimate Mini Moments to larger canvases and expansive abstracts, each holding its own moment of pause: light breaking through cloud, a breath at the water's edge, the hush before a storm. For Christina, painting is itself a way of finding that same stillness. The exhibition invites us to do the same: to slow down, to notice, and to recognise the quiet moments that restore us.
That sense of connection extends beyond the canvas. For her first solo exhibition, Christina has invited a small number of artists working in photography, ceramics, textiles and illustration to each contribute a single piece, a quiet nod to the people who have shaped her creative journey, from university to more recent collaborations. Their work sits alongside her paintings as a reminder that although making art can be a solitary act, creativity itself grows through connection: through shared experience, encouragement and community.
Perhaps we are never quite as alone in the quiet as we think we are.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Christina Sadler is a contemporary artist based in Gloucestershire, whose paintings sit between abstraction and landscape. Rather than depicting specific places, each work is a collage of landscape and lived experience, memories, atmospheres and fleeting moments of connection, layered into a single image. Her practice is rooted in nature: in walks that shift perspective, in changing light, in the rhythms and cycles that quietly remind us life ebbs and flows. Through layered paint, wiped-away surfaces, atmospheric colour and intuitive mark-making, she translates what she notices and feels into paintings that offer the viewer space to bring their own experience and perhaps feel a little less alone.
Christina holds a first-class degree in Fine Art from the University of Wales and spent over a decade working in arts education, programming, and arts and health before becoming a full-time artist. Her work extends beyond traditional gallery spaces: she is passionate about the power of art to support wellbeing, and has delivered public art projects including large-scale vinyls for NHS mental health spaces and an immersive installation for the National Gallery Road Trip. She was selected to create "Zale," the first lion sculpture for the Lions at Large trail across Gloucester and Cheltenham, raising funds for the Big Space Cancer Appeal.
Her work has also been shown on the London Underground and in a pop-up shop at John Lewis. She is represented by Wychwood Art Gallery, Oxford, and is an active member of Sixteen Gallery Collective, Cheltenham.
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