"Adagio", Oil on Canvas, 153cm x 122cm, 2009

"Mount Battock, Glen Esk", Oil on Canvas, 102cm x 102cm, 2009

Susie was recently shortlisted for the prestigeous JOLOMO Scottish Landscape Painting Award 2011. The shortlisted artists showed at the Bryce Hall, The Mound, Edinburgh the week of Thursday 26th May.The award ceremony was held in the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow on Friday, 24th June.

The theme of Susie's work is nature and it's contrasts; the tranquility and the drama of nature, it's power and it's vulnerability, the scale and the minutae. The work could be described as being a poetic interpretation of landscape/seascape with the landscape being taken as a metaphor for human emotion. She investigates spatial relationships within the environment to describe the subject. Differing compositions strengthen the understanding of the place and an abstraction exists in the selection of images from nature which emphasize the contrast and the emotional response.

Susie explores the tension between the flatness of the picture surface and the illusionary depth within the frame.