Experience

Sadie is an experienced author and artist and has published four technical books (CUP and OUP), Sadie specialises in writing poetry and short stories, and painting in oils and chalk pastels. She has published poems and short stories and has had solo exhibitions of her art.

Art, Drawing and Painting

Sadie's art is expressionist in bright colours, on all scales from miniatures to very large. The focus of the work tends to be on people: portraying people just as they are (including disabilities occasionally), clothed or nude, sometimes in cartoon form sometimes as a likeness. Other themes include feminist icons, reworking old masters and transgender rights. Sadie also makes lino prints and wood cuts based on mythological subjects.

Creative Writing

Sadie writes poetry and short stories and is working on a novel. Her poetic heroes include Wallace Stevens, Stevie Smith and others. Her story writing is typically allegorical and focuses on feminist themes and transgender rights. Her work is amusing and thoughtful, but also angry and pointed.

Themes

Representative art and portraits

Sadie's art presents a real likeness of a subject in an expressive form. She has painted commissioned portraits, in chalk pastel and in oils.

Sadie also paints scenes from imagination and fantasy, cartoon characters and caricature.

Other Art

Short stories

Sadie's short stories are often allegorical and focus on her life as a trans woman or, more generally, on difficulties experienced by women in the patriarchy.

Sadie is passionate about life studies to illustrate people as they really are, without any particular sexual context or restriction to common ideas of beauty.

Life studies

Much of Sadie's writing and art is inspired by mythology (Norse, Celtic, Babylonian, Egyptian, others) placed in a modern context.

Mythology

Poetry

Sadie's most recent book of poetry is published in August 2024 and focuses on the coming out and transition of her fictional alter ego, Kelsey Galileus.