Sue Smethurst Art

Sue gained her first qualification in Art and Design from The London  College of Fashion. For many years she worked in the world of fashion.  Firstly as a sketcher and then as a designer for various houses. She  often went to Paris for the couture collections and latterly worked for  Louis Feraud and later, Issey Miyake, coordinating their collections in  London as well as her own. She has studied at Chelsea School Art, the  V&A, and more recently at the Camden Art Centre in Hampstead.

For  Sue, the exploration of light plays a very important role in her work.  She enjoys capturing moments of translucence and opaqueness. She enjoys  experimenting with different mediums and materials. She enjoys painting  in oils, but lately she has been working with acrylic, oil and dammar  varnish, wood, driftwood and canvas.

Many of Sue’s paintings of  landscapes are evoked from many glorious travels through Wiltshire to  Somerset and also further studies of other parts of the English  countryside, bathed in light through the seasons. There are seascapes  from moving and wonderful Iona in Scotland, and full moon and sea  paintings, highlighting reflections of light and shadow.