Susan (b. 1967) worked as an Architectural Technician for twelve years before returning to education to study art, graduating with BA (Hons) in 2002. She began working as a full time artist in 2006.
My paintings and drawings evolve from half-remembered glimpses seen from the corner of my eye, fleeting juxtapositions elusive to photography, the dislocated reverie of long car journeys, or from more studied compositions. They are created from many visual sources that are filtered through sketchbook work and altered intuitively as the painting progresses. It is important that the painting becomes an object in itself, it’s worn edges and tactile nature embodying the physicality of the landscape and the effects of time, weather and elusive memories.
The landscape and architecture are my starting point, not as a picturesque or static view, but as a space travelled through and experienced often on the edges of the urban and rural. It is a source of manmade and natural structures, surfaces and colour from which my reductive personal responses develop. I am inspired by distant horizons, the silhouettes of trees and rooftops contrasting expanses of sky.
Susan works from her studio at Vale Artists’ Studios, Cheshire. Her work is exhibited and commissioned regularly and is held in private and corporate collections in the UK, Europe, the US, Asia and Australia. It has been selected for the Royal West of England Academy Drawn exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Annual exhibition and Fully Awake 5:6 at the Freelands Foundation, London.
