Susan Osborne

Painting for me is like active contemplation.  As I walk around and about with my two Westies, I wait for something to stop me in my tracks. Maybe an old tree that speaks of endurance, an orange hedge blazing in winter sunshine,  or a  line of beauty in a farm-track swerve.  I take photos or make a sketch.

How I do it.

I take what I’ve seen back home and gloat on it: I use pencil and paper to find the essential lines. Then I block out the colours in an underpainting. Sometimes In oiI, sometimes in acrylic.   I relish the paint, squidging and marking and scratching.  As I sink into the process, the original power of what I saw transfers in my imagination to the painted surface.

Painting is my constant.

I have done various kinds of work: as an English teacher, with older people, in refugee support and children’s work, in caring for my family, and now as a psychotherapist. Painting has been my constant.

Website: www.susanosborne.org/gallery/

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