About Susan

Susan is an artist and a mother of two living in Waikanae, New Zealand. As well as being an artist Susan has a degree in management and previously had a successful career in IT. Susan began painting in 2002 when she moved to Waikanae.

Susan has been involved in the 2007, 2009, 2012 Kapiti Arts Trail, exhibited at Art Space gallery in Paraparaumu and been involved in the Rotary Art Exhibition 2009.  She has also donated paintings to raise money for the Wellington division of the Child Cancer Society and an Oxfam Trailwalker.

She has carried out commissions for people in England, America and Australia who have visited the Kapiti Coast and were keen to take a little piece of it with them.

Philosophy

My art work depicts my feelings about New Zealand. I take five basic elements that represents New Zealand to me; beautiful greens found in the flax plant, rivers represented by river stones, paua from the sea with its beautiful blues and greens, the pacific influence of flax weaving, and finally beautiful rolling hills of which I have always been fascinated.

The colours are vivid, the lines clean and the images clear. I like to add textures and life to some pieces using items from the beach ; paua chips, pumice, green mussels and rams horns.

I have endless ideas about how I would like to interpret my feelings using these five elements in conjunction with other New Zealand icons; nikau palms, cabbage trees, ferns and fauna.