Author Archives: Susan Isaac

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About Susan Isaac

Contemporary Artist - painter and ceramic sculptor

Thoresby Exhibition of Landscape Paintings and Ceramic Sculpture

Yesterday I delivered paintings to the Thoresby Gallery for my solo exhibition,  ‘Light & Line in the Landscape‘, which starts on Tuesday. Cynthia has been hanging the paintings today, alongside a small selection of my ceramic sculptural works. There are … Continue reading

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New work of Botallack, Cornwall

This is one of a group of paintings I’ve been working on of ‘The Crowns’ engine houses at Botallack in Cornwall. I love this highly vertiginous viewpoint of the remains.  Its a view that has led me to experiment with … Continue reading

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My Rufford Abbey Paintings at the Rufford Spring Exhibition

I have a series of paintings at Rufford Park in the Creative Greenhouse spring exhibition, which opened last weekend.  Up until now, when painting Rufford, I have chosen to use square compositions, so when I began these paintings it was exciting to refresh the … Continue reading

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Newark Paintings at Thoresby and Harley

I haven’t written for a while as I’ve been so busy painting, putting on an open studio and sending work to galleries. As Christmas approaches, I wanted to put down something about the pieces I’ve been working on during the … Continue reading

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Newark Pop Up No More

The Newark Pop Up Gallery has now vanished. We did our last day yesterday (Saturday) and everyone removed their stuff today – you wouldn’t know we had been there!  It was a really good experience and I thoroughly enjoyed teaming … Continue reading

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Newark Pop Up Private View

Had our private view of the gallery last night. It went really well. No-one thought to make a note of numbers, but my daughter took a few photos and you can see it was busy.

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Newark Pop Up Gallery

Just finished hanging work for the Pop Up Gallery in Newark ready for the opening tomorrow. There really is an exciting mix of works. Bill Ming has some terrific new abstract collages, alongside the exuberant figure paintings of Nikki McKay. … Continue reading

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Thoresby Open Exhibition

Really pleased that Thoresby has selected three of my paintings for the Open Exhibition. This year the theme is ‘conflict’ and I chose to enter two paintings of Newark Castle together with a view of Nottingham’s market square that contrasts … Continue reading

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Proposed Pop Up Gallery in Newark

Bill Ming has asked me to join a ‘Pop Up Gallery’ in Newark with himself and three other artists, to take place in the latter half of September. It  sounds like an exciting opportunity – I really like Bill’s abstract … Continue reading

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Staithes Gallery – Lifeboat Show 2011

This morning I sent off 6 paintings to the Staithes Gallery ready for their Lifeboat Show, running from 8 – 25 April. Colours are all tints and tones of powdery blues and rose pantiles in these Yorkshire paintings. Most of the … Continue reading

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