Sara Hoque
Between Memories, 2025
Acrylic on paper, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, with hand built wooden frame
Staff Wellbeing Hub, Royal London Hospital
Sara Hoque's installation for Vital Arts is sited in the Wellbeing Hub at the Royal London Hospital, which staff use to rest and recover from their busy shifts in the acute hospital. Hoque's paintings seek to capture the essence of the natural world, offering the sense of tranquility and awe, which landscape can inspire. While studying fine art, Hoque was introduced to historic landscape paintings, and she incorporates a depiction of "the sublime”—the sense of grandeur that evokes wonder—into her own artistic practice.
Born to a Norwegian mother and British/Bengali father, the artist enjoyed a nomadic and multicultural upbringing. She draws inspiration from the memories of her childhood travels, and the discovery of enchanting natural settings, many of which were in Norway. Hoque has said that she uses "vivid brushstrokes and dream-like imagery to mimic transcendental moments experienced in nature".
(left to right) Solstice, Fading Horizons, Silent Dusk, 2025
About the artist
Sara Hoque, born in 1991, graduated from Kingston University in 2013. She has had solo exhibitions in London at SKT Gallery, London and The Curtain Club, and has shown in group shows with The Other Art Fair, The Holy Art Gallery, Crawley Road Studios and others. Hoque lives on a narrowboat which influences her artistic practice, and extends her iterant background.
