Awards

My work has won, or been shortlisted for, various awards:

  • Finalist on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year series 10 (broadcast 2025) filmed at St Pancras Basin in London, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard & Stonehenge
  • Attenborough Prize winner (2024) – in the ‘Open: The People’s Exhibition‘  for artists across the East Midlands.
  • Shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize – receiving an honourable mention (Holt Festival, 2024).
  • Attenborough Prize winner (2022) – in the ‘Open 33‘  Leicester and East Midlands Open Art Competition & Exhibition.
  • Judges Award – Paint Out Norfolk (2022),  from Sally Anne Huxtable, head curator of National Trust
  • Shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize & the Charlotte Fraser Ceramic & Glass Prize (Holt Festival, 2022).
  • Pod artist on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year series 7 (broadcast 2022, filmed 2021) – at the Eden Project
  • 1st prize – D31 Art Gallery “Our Changing World” exhibition (2021)
  • Highly Commended – Buxton Spa Art Prize (2021)
  • Wildcard Winner on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year series 6 (broadcast 2021, filmed 2020) – at West Wycombe
  • 1st Prize (Competition winner) – Paint Out Norfolk (2020), judged by Bruer Tidman, Sarah Flynn & Amanda Geitner
  • Shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize (Holt Festival, 2020).
  • 1st Prize Oil Painting – Paint Out Norfolk at the Sainsbury Centre (2019), judged by Prof Paul Greenhalgh, George Rowlett & Dr Francesca Vanke.
  • Shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize (Holt Festival, 2019).
  • 1st Prize Nocturne – Paint Out Norwich (2018), judged by Dr Giorgia Bottinelli, Sarah Flynn & Tony Robinson.
  • International Festival Choice – Buxton Spa Prize Open Art Competition (2017)
  • Thoresby Open First Prize (2017)
  • Shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize (Holt Festival, 2017).
  • 1851 Prize – Oxford Open plein air competition (2015)
  • Exhibition prize winner – Thoresby Open Exhibition (2015).
  • Wilson Browne prize – Leicester Open26 Exhibition (2015)
  • Winsor & Newton Award – TALP (2015).
  • Exhibition prize winner – Thoresby Open Exhibition (2011).
  • Tony Wilkinson prize – Thoresby Open Exhibition (2011).
Winner of Attenborough Prize in the 2024 ‘Open: The People’s Exhibition’ (mixed media on canvas, 76x76cm), £1600 fr (£1400 unfr) – Contact Susan
Winner of Attenborough Prize in the ‘Open 33’  Leicester and East Midlands Open Art Competition & Exhibition (oil on canvas, 76x76cm), SOLD.
Judges Award (Sally-Anne Huxtable, head curator of National Trust) Paint Out Norfolk (2022) ‘In Memoriam (St Margarets, Wolterton)’, (Acrylic & oil on canvas, 45x45cm).
Sold
1st Prize D31 Art Gallery “Our Changing World” exhibition (2021) ‘Berlin 1’ (mixed media on canvas, 51x51cm / 59x59cm framed).
£825 framed – Contact Susan
Highly Commended Buxton Spa Art Prize (2021) ‘From the top of Hall Bank, Buxton’ (oil on canvas, 76x76cm).
£1400 framed – Contact Susan
Submission piece for Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Submission (submitted 2021 – broadcast as part of series 6 in 2022)
Susan Isaac – Landscape with Monolithic Flint Nodules (West Wycombe Estate)
1st Prize (Competition Winner) Paint Out Norfolk (2020) Painted Fri 17 July 2020
1st Prize Oil Painting Paint Out Norfolk at the Sainsbury Centre (2019) ‘Below Bishop Bridge, Norwich’ (oil on paper, 40x40cm).
£450 unframed – Contact Susan
Shortlisted for Sir John Hurt Art Prize (part of Holt Festival, 2019) – painted Sat 16 Sept 2017
1st Prize Nocturne Category Paint Out Norwich (2018). ‘St Peter Mancroft, Norwich’ (oil on panel, 23x33cm).
£490 framed – Contact Susan
International Festival Choice in the Buxton Spa Prize Open Art Competition (2017). ‘The Cavendish Arcade, Buxton’ (oil on canvas, 76x76cm).
£1,400 framed – Contact Susan.
Shortlisted for the 2017 Sir John Hurt Art Prize (part of the Holt Festival). ‘The Harbour at Wells-Next-The-Sea’ (oil on canvas, 50x50cm).
SOLD
Thoresby Open First Prize – Thoresby Open Exhibition (2017). ‘The Iron Bridge’ (oil on canvas, 76x76cm).
£1,400 framed – Contact Susan
1851 Prize at the Oxford Open plein air competition (2015). ‘Ascending the Castle Mound, Oxford’ (oil on canvas, 76x76cm).
£1,250 framed – Claremont Gallery
Wilson Browne prize at the Leicester Open26 Exhibition (2015). ‘Magdalen Bridge, Oxford’ (oil on canvas, 76x76cm).
SOLD
Winsor & Newton Award at TALP open art competition (2015) & Exhibition prize winner of the Thoresby Open Exhibition (2015). ‘St Johns College from Trinity Street, Cambridge’ (oil on canvas, 76x76cm).
SOLD
Exhibition prize winner & Tony Wilkinson prize in the Thoresby Open Exhibition (2011).‘Newark Castle from Trent Bridge’ (oil on canvas, 76x76cm).
SOLD