Right, you guessed it, I have scarcely been out of doors owing to copious snowfalls landing on ice, therefore I did not manage to meet my hair salon appointment on Saturday, and so I do -seriously - resemble a female version of Wagner. Sarah Jane Szikora is an English-born abstract humour artist. She was born in County Durham, England, in 1971. She took up art and painting ever since she was in school. She would often visit her father in Hungary, where she gathered inspiration for her paintings from the intriguing people that lived there. She eventually pursued a course in art and design at Harrogate College followed by illustration at Cleveland College of Art, where she realized her love of drawing, especially human forms. She started her own business in 1991 creating paper Mache figurines. Later, she returned to her true passion of painting and began publishing her art as jigsaws, greetings cards and limited edition works.
Sarah Jane cites her main influence as Thomas Rowlandson, who was a great English caricaturist. She also derives a lot of inspiration from funny books, films and television. Her paintings usually feature skinny and fat ladies with small heads, skinny men and gingerbread men. Her paintings try to portray a content society, a society that is inhabited by positive characters, the women in particular, who are quite comfortable with the way they look, whether fat or skinny. Some of Sarah Jane’s famous works include paintings like Taking the Biscuit and Heavenly abode and sculptures like Two O’clock temptation and Peek-A-Boo.
