Born in Oxford, UK, Sally began painting after a light bulb moment as she cycled round Greenham Common.  She moved to Brighton for art school and became life long friends with her tutor Jack Smith. Payen attended the painting school of the RCA when it was housed in the V&A  and her understandings became shaped by modernism and Indian painting, sitting in front of the Indian collection in the V&A bec

Contact sallypayen @gmail.com Born in Oxford, UK, Sally moved to Brighton for art school and became life long friends with her tutor Jack Smith. Payen attended the painting school of the RCA when it was housed in the V&A  and her understandings became shaped by modernism and Indian painting, sitting in front of the Indian collection in the V&A became a big part of her MA studies. Payen completed a doctor

Buffer Zones, Paradise Works, Manchester, curated by Nat Pitt, Division of Labour, 2019 The Fence and the Shadow, MAC Birmingham, 2017, curated by Mandy Fowler, ACE funded

The Fence and the Shadow, exhibition at MAC Birmingham, 2017- buy here The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting, 2018 – this publication features my exhibition The Fence and the Shadow at MAC Birmingham – buy here

Liminal Protest, 42cm by 30 cm, acrylic on handmade paper

Trigger, 33cm by 30cm, oil on canvas, 2019

Time Lapse, 26cm by 33cm, oil on canvas, 2016

Time Lapse, 24cm by 30cm, oil on linen board, 2016

Greenham Symbole, 26cm by 33cm, oil on canvas, 2017

Waiting (Portrait of a Protester), 40cm by 30cm oil and pigment on board, 2013