Sofia

Sofia has explored the South Downs in all seasons – tracing silhouette of horses by Birling Gap on foggy winter days and on fresh spring mornings… On a recent trip to the Seven Sisters Country Park, she was happy to return to a familiar field filled with beautiful horses.

Sofia is an artist, illustrator and lecturer at Birmingham university. She loves horses and learnt to ride in the Middle East, while she was on a year abroad as part of her Arabic and Development degree programme at SOAS. She has volunteered in city farms in London in order to spend time with horses. Her work is inspired in part by nature. In the past, she has created dreamy technicolour batik paintings of stallians against surrealist backdrops. She has an allotment close to where she lives in the West Midlands.