About the Artist                                 

Sue works in various media including pastel, watercolour, acrylic and charcoal, taking her inspiration from rural life - animals, figures, landscapes, plants.

A self taught artist who has produced most of her work in tne last 10 years.

Sensitively composed work, full of life and light based on skills built up from a lifetime of drawing and observation.

She grew up in Dorset & the New Forest and for the last 27 years has lived in North Dorset with her husband where they built up & ran a specialist plant centre and raised 3 sons. Here she designed a series of illustrated plant information cards that were used in garden centres nationally.
Most of her working life has been spent in horticulture having studied at Wye College/Imperial College (University of London). A brief spell in landscape design and also as Head Gardener at Kingston Lacy, Wimborne, before the National Trust took ownership. She has also been a sales executive and designer for a group of Sussex nurseries and is a director of Orchard Park Garden Centre.

Sue now works mainly as an artist but still has a keen interest in horticulture

Exhibitions

2010   Society of Women Artists Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries. London

2009  'Quartet' Joint exhibition. Peter Hedley Gallery, Wareham, Dorset
2009   Art at the Park exhibition Thetford, Norfolk
2008   Dorset Art Weeks Studio Exhibition. Milton on Stour (end of May)
2007   'Rural Heart' Solo Exhibition. The Exchange Gallery, Sturminster Newton
2006   Society of Graphic Fine Art Annual Open Exhibition, London
2006   Dorset Art Weeks Solo Exhibition. Orchard Park Garden Centre, Gillingham
2004   Sherborne Art Club Annual Open Exhibition
2004   Dorset Art Weeks Studio Exhibition. Milton on Stour
2004   Art at the Park exhibition Thetford, Norfolk
2003   Bath & West Show Art Exhibition, Shepton Mallet
2003   Society of Graphic Fine Art Annual Open Exhibition, Bath
2002   Dorset Art Weeks Studio Exhibition. Milton on Stour
2001   First Studio exhibition Milton on Stour
2000   Salisbury Small Pictures mixed exhibition
2000   Young Challenge Trophy Winner Art Exhibition. Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show
1999   Young Challenge Trophy Winner Art Exhibition. Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show