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
