Glen Rock Gallery in July

IMPRESSIONS IN WATERCOLOUR
Works by Susan Howard and ceramics by Jan Godfrey. (Information thanks to SASI.)

“Every flower has its own quality and it is my intend to capture this fleeting impression as they blow in the wind, open out or fade. If you want a perfect image of a flower, take a camera or look at a botanical painting – my watercolour is about Impression.” Sue Howard

Sue trained at the prestigious National Art School, East Sydney Tech during the 1960. She then completed a Fine Arts Degree at Sydney University after receiving a teaching scholarship. She travelled the world painting and teaching in the UK and Greece where she lived for a short while. On her return to Australia she settled in Far North Queensland where she joined the Cairns Art Society and won an award for one of her Greek landscapes.

After raising her family and officially retiring from the work force she staged successful exhibitions in Cairns, Brisbane and the Brisbane Valley before relocating to Toogoolawah. She is a member of the Somerset Art Society Inc and the Mt. Beppo Art Group, where she is due to give a Watercolour workshop in November.

Sue is now exclusively a watercolourist – an Impressionist in the style of her idol Monet, where loose washes of colour merge and blend together, a technique called wet-on-wet, which gives her work a beautiful transparent, free flowing and spontaneous quality. She only uses 3 primary colours in her work, red, yellow and blue and never black or white.

Sue’s delicate paintings are very successfully complemented by the hard edged, bright coloured ceramics of Jan Godfrey. Of particular interest is Jan’s 3D self-portrait: “Her head in the Clouds”, featuring her current red glasses!

The exhibition will continue until 25th July.