
What colour is joy – what marks and movements? How might music’s rhythms reveal themselves visually? In its abstraction, my work captures the essence of potent, emotional experiences through an interplay of colour, mark and form. Celebrating the richness of a felt life, each new work begins intuitively in a moment of presence. An upswell of feeling is followed by an impulse to reach for a particular colour, favourite oil stick, ink or paint and the first mark is made. I love the physicality of different media, the lusciousness of blending them within a piece of work. Mark making responds to feeling as dance to music.The scale of the work is intentionally immersive.
Since her first solo exhibition at the Pankhurst Centre, Manchester in 1995, Suzanne has exhibited widely throughout the UK. In 2022 she had a solo exhibition at HOME, Manchester. Her painting ‘Moment of Balance’ was launches in 2024 as an artist’s print by the Whitworth Art Gallery, available from the gallery’s shop. San Carlo Restaurants is a collector of her work with pieces destined for a central London restaurant this year. Her work is in private collections nationally and internationally in Sweden, Spain, Australia & New Zealand.
She is an associate member of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester and a member of Hotbed Press, Salford. Her large, light filled studio in Goyt Mill, Marple, overlooks the Manchester skyline.
In this interview with Alice Wilde, talent development producer at HOME, Suzanne discusses making work for the exhibition Lucky Dip click here