Hello and welcome

I’m Susie, a London based figurative artist who loves colour, vintage toys and bringing stories to life through my artworks. Check out this mini video intro.

I specialise in oil on canvas and digital painting and I am on a mission to help you identify, connect and give form to the meaningful experiences, objects and people in your life through beautifully crafted, uplifting artworks. Celebrate the things that are special to you in a visually engaging way that will enliven the walls of your home, delight your eye & awaken your imagination !

Where did it all begin?

My emotional connection with art and creating began from childhood. My mother is an artist, and my father was an art consultant and collector. As such I grew up in home full of artworks, even my bedroom doubled up as storage for the overspill.

Art was quite literally my constant companion and became a familiar and comforting presence to me. I have many childhood memories exploring painting and drawing with my mother at the kitchen table and going on museum and exhibition trips with my father endlessly discussing the things that we saw.

I struggled with reading and writing at school and turned toward painting and drawing quite naturally to better express myself, finding in this visual language a way I could convey my thoughts and feelings with a fluency and confidence I just didn't have in words.

As I got older and my painting and drawing abilities grew so did my visual vocabulary and I began to use my artwork more and more as a place to process my experiences of life. I found refuge in it as a teenager, escaping to my room with a sketchbook during family difficulties, finding peace there and a sense of time dissolving.

I found meaning in it during my final year degree show at art college, when I produced a series of narrative paintings based on personal thoughts and feelings which resonated with the strangers who bought them, revealing to me the power art has to form human connections.

I found deep and powerful solace in it most recently after losing my father to cancer, when it provided an anchor to pin all my feelings to and gave me an outlet, without words, to help me process my grief.

Why I do I create Art?

Creating art is how I explore and understand the world in and around me, celebrating the objects, people and experiences that move and inspire me. My mission is to use my skills to help my clients do the same, telling their stories and creating beautiful artworks full of meaning for them.

I believe art has the power to build emotional bridges between people, encouraging them to see the world around them in a more emotionally engaged way, celebrating what is meaningful and what roots us in our humanity.

Would you like to work with me?

Click the button below to explore my commission service page which explains exactly how everything works.