SUSAN
FOORD R.W.A. (born 1945)
“Landscape
I”
Oil
Painting. Signed. 13” x 13” IMAGE
“Landscape
II”
Oil
Painting. Signed. 9” x 11” 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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