Susanna Lisle Biography |
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| Address | Susanna Lisle Hatfield House 61 Bloomfield Rd Bath BA2 2AW |
| Telephone | 01225 310272 |
| susannalisle@hotmail.co.uk | |
| Selected mixed shows | |
| 1981 | BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London |
| 1986 | Stockbridge Gallery Stockbridge, Hants |
| 1992-2004 | Bath Society of Artists Annual Exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery |
| 1994 | RWA Open exhibition |
| 2003,04 | Artworks exhibition, Bath |
| 2003 | Black Swan, Frome. |
| 2004,05 | Bath Society of Artists, members' exhibition, |
| 2004,05 | Rowley Gallery, Kensington Church St. London |
| 2005 | Royal College of Art, Works on Paper Fair, with Rowley Gallery. |
| 2002,03,04,05 | Open studio exhibitions; Bear Flat Artists Bath |
| 2005 | RWA-Bristol Contemporary Painting Exhibition |
| 2005 | Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Competition |
| Portrait Commissions | |
| 1983 | Keith and Louise Allen-Jones-Portrait of Louise |
| 1997,98 | Nick and Charlotte Eager - Portraits of Alex and Barnaby |
| 1998 | Rosie and Mark Richardson - Portraits of Family |
| 1998,2001 | Sarah and Simon McBride - Portraits of Polly and Josh |
| 1999 | Sharon Powell-Portrait of Sharon Powell |
| 2002 | Andrew and Jane Pople - Portrait of Amy |
| 2005 | Sally and Gary Manning - Portrait of Rosie |
| Commissions | |
| 1980-86 | Tapestry designs and catalogue covers for Ehrman Tapestry, London |
| 2005 | Kate Nash-Painting the Green Room |
| Born in Leeds, Yorkshire. Foundation course at Leeds, then studied painting at Goldsmiths College of Art, University of London, then ATC at Goldsmiths. Spent two years in Singapore from 1989 to1991 and lived in Portland, Oregon from 1998 to 2000.Now lives and works in Bath. | |
| Personal Statement | My work has always been concerned with the perennial problems of making a painting. That is, drawing, composition, colour and the meaning and purpose of painting. Over the last five years my work has become more abstract and increasingly focussed on colour. Working less figuratively has enabled me to make paintings where the meaning is increasingly bound up with the use of colour. For me colour is the driving force and everything depends on it. I am continually looking and hopefully learning from the great painters I admire Degas, Velasquez, Gainsborough and those of the last century. I have also been very influenced by the paintings of India, Persia, and Turkey. Their use of colour is unique, rich and intense. Working on a painting is an adventure, a process of uncovering, it exists somewhere but it has to be revealed. |