Susie Collingbourne
- Work
- Biography
My work explores the relationship between landscape and memory, mountainous horizons and emotion. I mostly paint Scottish Munros, hillsides and lochs. I love the creative exploration of complex, contrasting and often conflicting layers and textures. I paint instinctively and freely, predominantly using acrylic paint on canvas, sometimes with the addition of gold leaf or collage from old maps.
I studied English Literature and Language at University, before working in publishing in London and Edinburgh. I’m drawn to art for similar reasons that I love books: escapism, imagination and a shared connection.
I’ve always been creative, and that has manifested itself in many different ways throughout my life, but it took until 2019 for me to muster the courage to start taking painting classes at Leith School of Art. There I became part of an Art Collective with other students called “Eleven Painters”: we have gone on to exhibit at the Dundas Street Gallery in Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Art Fair and the Borders Art Fair. Independently, I have worked on commissioned paintings for clients across the UK, and have exhibited at the D31 Gallery in Doncaster, and will later this year exhibit at the Moy Mackay Gallery in Peebles and Studio 44 in Largs.
I’ve always been creative, and that has manifested itself in many different ways throughout my life, but it took until 2019 for me to muster the courage to start taking painting classes at Leith School of Art. There I became part of an Art Collective with other students called “Eleven Painters”: we have gone on to exhibit at the Dundas Street Gallery in Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Art Fair and the Borders Art Fair. Independently, I have worked on commissioned paintings for clients across the UK, and have exhibited at the D31 Gallery in Doncaster, and will later this year exhibit at the Moy Mackay Gallery in Peebles and Studio 44 in Largs.
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- Poetry of Glencoe
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- Drama of Loch Tay
- Mixed Media
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