Sally Maxwell works in Scratchboard as no other artist does. Using Scratchbord™ as her base medium, she utilizes various removal tools and methods to get to the white clay undercoating. This drawing portion of her work occupies 90% of the time required to produce each piece. Colored India ink is then washed back into the white exposed areas in the work. Final coatings of UV and moisture resistant varnishes are applied. Lately she has moved into Marker drawings in India ink with removal techniques from herScratchboard experiences. Her design style has merged Super-realism with Minimalism to create simple wonderful works of animal art. Each piece depicts a relationship between animals or a particular characteristic normally found within human animals.

She started working in the medium while pregnant with her first child 53 years ago. Commercial illustration was the first avenue for her talents to be exposed with Fine Art as a “hobby”. This slowly changed with her development of the addition of color to her scratchboard works. She had her own Publishing company during the era of Signed and numbers limited edition prints and then moved into the collectable field of Plates and figurines when they became popular having over 10 different series published. Self representation came prevalent to her career with her originals 20 years ago. She still exhibits in three major National Art shows each year but has started exhibiting mostly in Galleries in Jackson Hole, WY and Santa Fe, NM. Giclee editions of major works are available on her website as well as copies of her book, “Scratching The Surface.”