Through the mediums of painting,drawing and installation I explore the subtleties of landscape. I am interested in our impact on it as humans and how this relates to time. I create living surfaces from which to begin my work. This involves finding, staining rubbing back, creating layers, both deliberate and happenstance. With the use of resisting oil and water based materials technique looses control, instinctive layers are born. From this paradox appear fragments from which to work, clues, history,memories, in and out of focus. I am to engage the viewer in this paradox and invite them to reflect on their own response to it.

Susan graduated from DLIADT in 1997. Since graduating she has been included in many group and solo shows both in Ireland and abroad including Eigse 2008/9, Greyfriars Municipal Gallery Waterford, The Mermaid Art Centre and Ballina Arts Centre. Her work has been collected by OPW, Trinity College Dublin and The Ice Hotel Ballina.