Susan Absolon

Since 2011, I've been a full-time, independent artist.   I was awarded the Contemporary British Painting prize in 2021.

 

Words and images restore me when painting is hard.  "Birthday Letters" by Ted Hughes, Hugo Williams' "Billy's Rain", Edna O'Brien's 'The Love Object', Prunella Clough's late paintings, Per Kirkeby, Ilse d'Hollander, Sonia Delaunay's textile designs, Merlin James, Phillip Larkin's poem "Aubade", Bonnard's self-portraits, memories of rainy summers in Scotland, and the fascinating, slippery nature of language.