Author Archives: Susan Isaac

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About Susan Isaac

Contemporary Artist - painter and ceramic sculptor

Charlestown

Posted on 5 July, 2017 by Susan Isaac

This painting of Charlestown in Cornwall was selected for ‘Open 28‘, the East Midlands Open Art Exhibition in Leicester, which is on at the Old Library Gallery, 50-54 Belvoir Street, Leicester, LE1 6QL from 6 July to 26 August, 2017. … Continue reading →

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Buxton Spa Prize Exhibition

Posted on 29 June, 2017 by Susan Isaac

Earlier this week I delivered two paintings and a sketchbook to the Green Man Gallery in Buxton, as submissions for this year’s Buxton Spa Prize. The exhibition of entries runs from 1-31 July (The Green Man Gallery is at Hardwick … Continue reading →

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Wells-next-the-Sea

Posted on 23 June, 2017 by Susan Isaac

I was delighted to learn that this work has been shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize and will be in the ‘Exhibition of Shortlisted Works’ at this year’s Holt Festival (22–30 July at the Auden Theatre in Holt). … Continue reading →

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Painting in the Orchard

Posted on 22 June, 2017 by Susan Isaac

Yesterday, having planned an afternoon of plein air painting on this hottest of days, I found a heavily shaded spot under one of my favourite Bramley apple trees. Working in watercolour on a 22″ x 30″ sheet of Saunders Waterford,  … Continue reading →

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Painting Cambridge

Posted on 11 March, 2017 by Susan Isaac

Here is the first in a new series of paintings based around Cambridge, and which I have been preparing over the winter. The Mathematical Bridge springing from Queens College is the focus of this composition. I enjoyed the simple structural … Continue reading →

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Sketches of Wells-next-the-Sea

Posted on 19 December, 2016 by Susan Isaac

Here is another painting composition I have been working on in my Norfolk series. This side of The Quay at Wells tends to be dominated by The Granary. Its gantry creates a striking cantilevered form with delicate supporting girders tracing … Continue reading →

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Sketches of Wells-next-the-Sea

Posted on 16 December, 2016 by Susan Isaac

This morning I started exploring some compositions for a painting I want to make of Wells in Norfolk. In this sketch I’ve been working in watercolour.     Several sketches later, this feels like a more interesting perspective from which … Continue reading →

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Southwell Minster Winter Fair

Posted on 1 November, 2016 by Susan Isaac

Its the Southwell Minster Winter Fair this Saturday (5th Nov). I will have a stall there and be showing some of my work from this year, including this painting of the Minster – a view from Bishop’s Drive. I will … Continue reading →

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Peterhouse from Trumpington Street, Cambridge

Posted on 17 March, 2016 by Susan Isaac

This painting is currently in the Barn Gallery at Patchings Art Centre (to 10 April). Its a view along Trumpington Street in Cambridge with the buildings of Peterhouse on the left.  For me the scene has an air about it of … Continue reading →

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Saffron Walden Gallery

Posted on 4 March, 2016 by Susan Isaac

Very happy to have work in the Spring Group Show of the Saffron Walden Gallery – from today to 31 May. Here is one of the paintings – a view of ‘Polperro Harbour from Roman Bridge’. The colour in it is cool, … Continue reading →

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