Susan was born in Yorkshire in 1953. She has painted & drawn all her life but her degree was in psychology. In the 1980s she obtained art tuition from the nationally-renowned artist Bill Selby, who was then living nearby, and she has now been a professional artist for more than 35 years.
The quality of her work was quickly recognised by the art world and in 1992 she was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Oils (ROI), followed by the Royal Society of British Artists in 1994.
“I paint the familiar & the intimate – family scenes (usually involving dogs & cats), outings, & people observed in restaurants & on family occasions.”
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Although Susan is a nationally-known artist who has lived 10 miles from York for the last 35 years she had seldom shown her work in Leeds or York until invited by Kentmere House in 2005. Most of her paintings sell in London & the south, which means that the popula- tion of her native region has been missing out on these lively, quirky paintings with their tongue-in-cheek messages. Kentmere House remains her only permanent gallery in the north.
Susan has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition al- most every year for the past 20 years, & also shows at the Mall Galleries in London with the New English Art Club, the Royal In- stitute of Painters in Watercolours (RI) & the Singer & Friedlander exhibition
Susan had her first solo London show in 2009, and several since. She has won many awards, including the ROI medal in 1997 & has an entry in the definitive publi- cation ‘Artists in Britain since 1945? Her work is in the Anthony Petullo collection in America and has been selected by the Bridgeman Art Library.
Susan is a wife, mother, grandmother, animal-lover (she has two dogs and a cat) with four grown- up children and five grandchildren. Her husband has a vintage fire engine. She continues to live in Yorkshire.
- In London she shows with:
- Royal Academy
- Mall Galleries
- Bankside Gallery
- Llewellyn Alexander, Waterloo
- Affordable Art Fair Battersea
- Russell Gallery, Richmond.
- Regional galleries include:
- Albany Gallery, Cardiff
- Minster Fine Art, Winchester
- Marine House at Beer, Devon
- Island Fine Art, IoW
- Denise Yhapp, Monmouth
- Jeremy Barlow, Norfolk
Susan Bower
ROI, RBA
Susan was born in Yorkshire in 1953. She has painted & drawn all her life but her degree was in psychology. In the 1980s she obtained art tuition from the nationally-renowned artist Bill Selby, who was then living nearby, and she has now been a professional artist for more than 35 years.
The quality of her work was quickly recognised by the art world and in 1992 she was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Oils (ROI), followed by the Royal Society of British Artists in 1994.
“I paint the familiar & the intimate – family scenes (usually involving dogs & cats), outings, & people observed in restaurants & on family occasions.”
Read full bioAlthough Susan is a nationally-known artist who has lived 10 miles from York for the last 35 years she had seldom shown her work in Leeds or York until invited by Kentmere House in 2005. Most of her paintings sell in London & the south, which means that the popula- tion of her native region has been missing out on these lively, quirky paintings with their tongue-in-cheek messages. Kentmere House remains her only permanent gallery in the north.
Susan has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition al- most every year for the past 20 years, & also shows at the Mall Galleries in London with the New English Art Club, the Royal In- stitute of Painters in Watercolours (RI) & the Singer & Friedlander exhibition
Susan had her first solo London show in 2009, and several since. She has won many awards, including the ROI medal in 1997 & has an entry in the definitive publi- cation ‘Artists in Britain since 1945? Her work is in the Anthony Petullo collection in America and has been selected by the Bridgeman Art Library.
Susan is a wife, mother, grandmother, animal-lover (she has two dogs and a cat) with four grown- up children and five grandchildren. Her husband has a vintage fire engine. She continues to live in Yorkshire.
- In London she shows with:
- Royal Academy
- Mall Galleries
- Bankside Gallery
- Llewellyn Alexander, Waterloo
- Affordable Art Fair Battersea
- Russell Gallery, Richmond.
- Regional galleries include:
- Albany Gallery, Cardiff
- Minster Fine Art, Winchester
- Marine House at Beer, Devon
- Island Fine Art, IoW
- Denise Yhapp, Monmouth
- Jeremy Barlow, Norfolk
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