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Susan Edwards MA FRSA
Artist information
I’m a contemporary colourist painter working in oils on canvas, and my paintings are immediately recognisble for multi layers of different kinds of vigorous mark making using brushes, palette knives, and textures, with contrasting impasto and translucent paint techniques working together.
I interpret the subject intuitively, translating form through my inherent colour language and letting the painting suggest the next step as it progresses. So you could say I have a conversation with my painting, and like any parent with teenagers I don’t try to force it to behave how I think it should, but rather, negotiate the outcome.
My seascapes and landscapes are usually begun on the spot at favourite locations including the Cornish Coast, The Malvern Hills, Yorkshire Dales and Snowdonia. Similarly, my still life subjects and figure studies are generally begun from life, which gives them the added quality of spontinaety.
I was traditionally trained at Leeds College of Art, Lincoln College of Art and Gloucester University.
I have exhibited with The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, The New English Art Club, The New Bath Art Club, Friends of the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, Tennant’s Garden Gallery in Yorkshire, and Women in Art at The Mall Galleries, London in recent years, and my paintings and portraits are in International private collections.
Find out more about my life in art and follow me on my website wwwsusanedwardspaintings.com and instagram https://www.instagram.com/susanedwardspaintings or e mail me with enquiries about garden commissions on susanedwardsfineartpaintings@gmail.com
Advice for beginners:
I like to exploit any accidental marks which happen spontaneously, but only leave them if they contribute to the whole picture. It doesn’t pay to be too precious about leaving favourite bits of the work, if it’s got to go, so be it. There will be more.
It was inspirational to have Tony Eyton RA to help me with my Masters Degree at Gloucester in 2016. The most important thing he taught me was to be confident that (for oil painting) you can never ‘ruin it’, because paintings are always in a state of being conditional, and they may take a different direction which you hadn’t anticipated which might be better than the original conception you set out with. This gives me confidence and freedom right from the start of a painting.
The only advice which no one can give you is where to stop!!
Website and social media
https://www.instagram.com/susanedwardspaintings/
https://www.facebook.com/sue.edwards.315080/
https://www.susanedwardspaintings.com