Susannah French
'Wintry Chinaman's'
ink, pencil & charcoal on paper
'Glass vase with Spear Lilies'
ink on paper
these artworks together with
'Cloudburst Over The Bay' (pictured below)
were exhibited during
December 2017 - January 2018
'Cloudburst Over The Bay'
ink and pencil on paper
"I've spent the last few months working on this painting of Trial Bay, South West Rocks.
It's a special place for me, as my family has been going there on holiday for over 30 years.
I painted the image from plein air sketches done on site and from my own reference photos, back in the studio."
- Susannah French, July 2017 update
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'Morning Natasha'
gouache on paper
from Decadence - A celebration of 10 Years of Art and Community - November/December 2016
'Australian Crimescene'
acrylic and mixed media on canvas
'Thaw'
acrylic on canvas
'SOS - save our surf'
acrylic on canvas
from Under the Radar - May/June 2016
'Wild child'
(and the model - Kalon Davis)
gouache on watercolour paper
'The House of the Alchemist'
ink
'Holy Water'
ink and pencil
- illustrates a poem I wrote in Varanasi, completed on my return
to Australia after a year in
India & Nepal in '94'.
'The House of the Alchemist'
'Holy Water'
from on a paper plane - April/May 2016
'Swamp Magic'
oil on board
'Pandanus'
watercolour on paper
'Wintry Chinaman's'
ink, pencil, charcoal on paper
'Woman with a Pearl Earring'
gouache on paper
'The Visionary'
pencil on paper
'Leave me be'
Acrylic on canvas
'Pelican at Woody'
Acrylic on canvas
'Violet shell'
Oil on board
from Ochre
Oct-Nov 2015
'Fruit Break'
Ink on Paper
Susannah French with her work 'Homegrown'
- Winner of the Members' section of the
Serpentine Community Gallery Art Prize 2015
'Lightening'
pencil, ink on paper
'Gathering'
acrylic and mixed media on masonite
Artworks from the July 2015 exhibition
'Childish Things'
mixed media
(detail right and below)
from an exhibition featuring recycled materials
- 'Play It Again Sam' - held in March 2015
'Violet shell'
oil on board
'Frazer's Reef - A Study'
oil on board
'Many waters cannot quench love'
gouache on paper
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can the floods drown it:
if a man were to give all the wealth
of his house for love,
it would utterly be rejected.
- Song of Solomon 8:7
artworks from Smalls - December 2014
'Swamp Magic'
oil and mixed media
'Gathering'
acrylic and mixed media on masonite
November 2014
'Touch The Sky'
was one of the artworks featured
in October 2014 during
'Snake Run'
acrylic on retro
80s skateboard
'Crime Scene'
acrylic, mixed media
'The Barra Board'
oil on retro
80s skateboard
April/May 2014
'Queen of Sheba Orchid'
oil and mixed media
by Susannah French
Artist's Statement
'Queen of Sheba Orchid, Thelymitra variegate'
It’s not so much the painting itself,
as the subject matter that’s the “fave”.
Orchids – those rather quirky, exotic flowers
have always been a source of fascination for me.
Once as a child we went away for an extended visit to relatives,
we came home to find my usually undemonstrative father
had filled our house full of Orchids!
This is my first large-scale experimentation with oils.
It’s a transitional work that explores the rather other–worldly
qualities of a native Sun Orchid. Thelymitra are commonly
known as Sun Orchids, due to their tendency
to only open their flowers in the warm sunshine.
- Susannah French, February 2014
'Blue Moon'
acrylic on canvas
'Waterfall'
acrylic on paper
from Favourites - February/March 2014
'Youth'
series 'ab origine (from the beginning)', no 1
watercolour on paper
'Pandanus (fruit)'
series 'ab origine (from the beginning)', no 2
watercolour on paper
'Rivers Edge'
'Flooded gum (leaf)'
'Touch the Sky'
series 'ab origine (from the beginning)', no 3, no 4 & no 5
watercolour on paper works
'Tree of Life'
recycled cardboard, acrylic paint, pastel, bits & bobs
from Miniatures - December 2013/January 2014
'Incantation'
Acrylic on canvas
'Wormhole'
ink, pencil & watercolour on paper
September 2013
from Me and You - August 2013
Congratulations...
Winner of the 'Peoples Choice Award
Susannah French's
'WILDCHILD'
in The Northern Rivers Portrait Prize 2013
June 2013