SUSAN
FOORD R.W.A. (born 1945)
“Window
Painting”
Mixed
Media on stretched paper over board
13
¼” x 9 ¼” (335 x 233mm) IMAGE
“Untitled
II”
Mixed
Media on stretched paper over board. 10 ½” x 12 ½” (267 x 317mm). Signed IMAGE
“Untitled
I”
Mixed
Media on stretched paper over board. 10 ½” x 11” (267 x 278mm). Signed IMAGE
“Drift”
Mixed
Media on stretched paper over board. 7
½” x 8” (190 x 202mm). Signed IMAGE
Susan Ford was born in London
on 9th July
1945. She studied at Jacob Kramer College
and at Leeds
Polytechnic. Between 1991 and 1992 she was a Visiting Lecturer in the same
institution. She has shown at the Royal Academy, the Royal West of England Academy (to which she was
elected Member in 1997), Dean Clough, Halifax, Manchester Academy of Fine
Arts, Waterman Fine Art, in Hong Kong at Gallery 7 and in Eight by Eight at Pallant House, Chichester. In 1997 she had a solo exhibition with Offer
Waterman and Co. Fine Art. Other solo
shows followed, at the Royal West of England Academy in 1999, Adam Gallery, London in 2001, 2002 and 2003 and Bath in 2005. Awards and prizes have been given from Leeds
Polytechnic, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and in 1994 she won the Royal Academy 'Arts Club Prize'. Her work
is represented in numerous private and public collections in the UK, Europe America and Asia. In England the public
collections which hold examples of her work are the Royal Academy of Arts, Arts
Club Collection, Provident Financial Art Collection Bradford, Leicestershire
Collection for Schools and Colleges and the 'Talboys' Collection at the RWA.
Her early painting influences were American Abstract Expressionists, Alan Davie
and Kandinsky. Currently she admires the work of artists such as Ben Nicholson, Morandi, Mary
Potter, Gwen John, Howard Hodgkin, Sydney Nolan, Alfred Wallis and Peter
Lanyon. In her own words Susan Foord
writes that… 'My approach when
painting has remained consistent throughout. In preparation a very heavy
cartridge paper is laid over board….. Using mixed media as a starting point, an
intuitive struggle ensues until an image of clarity and unity emerges which
corresponds to an inner feeling of rightness and wholeness. The resultant
images are mostly evocative of landscape or seascape, seemingly viewed through
a window. Sometimes images are suggestive of still life and sometimes more
abstract.'
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