Susan Elizabeth Wilson

Susan Elizabeth WilsonSusan Elizabeth WilsonSusan Elizabeth Wilson

Susan Elizabeth Wilson

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Artist statement

Whilst exploring the possibilities of abstraction to convey an idea, my art-making is an iterative process of discovery; where colour, mark-making and shape create a visual record of memory, an impression of place, emotion or subject.


Drawing, photography, collage and collecting objects are all important ways to record my impressions and build up a visual lexicon of material to work from. I use paint, charcoal, pastel, pencil, biro and crayon which present opportunities for images to emerge, disappear and resurface again. The building up of layers, erasure and leaving traces behind or memories of older marks is key to allowing the image to form.


My passion for sailing, reading nautical charts and maps underpin aspects of my practice, as does my curiosity for places I have visited – both imagined and real. Sailing through the Messina straits, the Adriatic and the Ionian islands influenced a recent series of works Laguna and Penelope, which are inspired by these places, their history and mythologies.

Background

Born in Lancashire, Susan studied painting, sculpture and textiles in Blackpool, Manchester and Bristol, graduating with BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 1978. She gained a PG Dip Youth and Community Work and an MEd Community Education from the University of Edinburgh. 


Until 2016, Susan combined her work as a visual artist with teaching and working in socially engaged, participatory arts. Primarily an abstract painter, her work is grounded in traditional observational research – drawing, photography, collecting and an issue or idea to explore.

Paintings

Exhibitions

  • Abstrack, Edinburgh 2023
  • Summerhall Visual Art Festival 2023
  • In Unison, Spilt Milk Gallery Collective with OnFife, Dunfermline 2023
  • West, Visuals Arts Scotland, small works open, Glasgow 2023
  • Society of Scottish Artists small works open 2022/23
  • Christmas Exhibition Edinburgh Palette 2022
  • Multifaceted, Edinburgh Palette 2022
  • Paper, Granton Hub Edinburgh 2022

  • Inception, Dalkeith Palace Lothian 2022
  • Awakenings, Edinburgh 2022
  • Christmas Exhibition Edinburgh Palette 2021
  • Society of Scottish Artists, selected artist Annual Exhibition Edinburgh 2021/22
  • DUst Bannockburn House, Stirling 2021
  • Advancing the Abstract, Edinburgh 2021
  • Visual Arts Scotland Annual exhibition FLOW selected artist 2020/21

  • Beaverhall Studios Edinburgh, Open Studios 2012
  • Grampian Arts Association, Open Exhibition 1987
  • Contemporary Textile Arts, North West Arts Council, Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham 1986
  • The Miners Strike Collaborative Abbot Hall Kendal 1984
  • Woman's Art Alliance, London 1980
  • Work in private collections

Residencies

Community art projects

Community art projects

  • World Mask Making Forum, Italy 2023
  • Dianola: Exploring Identity through Visual Art EU Socrates Programme from 1995
  • Abstractionista's Drawing Residency, Gight, Aberdeenshire October 2022

Community art projects

Community art projects

Community art projects

  • Action Factory Blackburn Lancashire: community art projects 1992-94
  • Rural Community Arts Lancashire: Common Ground Community Maps 1993-94
  • Triangle Arts Centre: Festival Theatre, Scottish Opera, community opera 1996
  • North Edinburgh Arts building project: client representative, arts animateur and artist 1995-2001

Media mentions

Oakberries #2
Oil on birch panel 30x30cm
The endangered oaks barks were highlighted by red berries

Art review Duncan Macmillan, The Scotsman: SSA 123rd Annual Exhibition | "Susan Elizabeth Wilson’s Oakberries 2 is another very accomplished small gestural painting".

In terms of both scale and subject matter, there’s a huge range of work on display at the Society of Scottish Artists’ Annual Exhibition, writes Duncan Macmillan of the SSA 123rd Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

The Society of Scottish Artists is back with what it reckons is the largest exhibition to take place in Scotland since the start of the pandemic. With 170 works on display, it is certainly a substantial show. Occupying the whole of the main floor of the RSA building, it has been hung with care and so really doesn’t look crowded. As ever, there is a huge range of work, from the very large to the very small and from the inscrutable to the straightforward……Susan Elizabeth Wilson’s Oakberries 2 is another very accomplished small gestural painting.

Testimonials

“Even when it's a shared landscape Susan’s interpretation encourages, informs and inspires me. I see it in a different way. I explore in a way I can’t do on my own. The spaces that are not shared are full of adventure, hope, dreams, fears. The wonderful colours, the organic shapes; all fill me with wonder and I just love going on the journey with her.” - Daryl Brydun, Art Lover and Collector

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