Susan Miller

My watercolours are large and bold. There are no sketches or fixed ideas. Subjects range from floral interpretation to abstracts and still life. Colour is the motivator. I have not been influenced by any one particular painter, but I am drawn to artists known for their use of colour like Hodgkin and Kandinsky.

Painting in a wet, loose style, I respond to the paint and follow where it leads, often changing direction in response to a pleasing mark, or area of paint.

Colour is vibrantly layered to create depth and mystery, using whatever is available. Excess paint is blown around the image to connect and unify.

My paintings are created with passion, which is hopefully conveyed by the finished work.

My work has been exhibited at the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters at the Mall Galleries in London in 2007 and 2008, and also at the Royal Watercolour Society at the Bankside Gallery in 2008.

My work was selected for an exhibition of prints in Holborn, London, sponsored by Art in Business magazine and Canon printers, in November 2007.

I exhibited in Brighton during the 2007 festival, and in the Algarve, Portugal, where I held my first solo exhibition at the GT Studio in 2007. A second exhibition was held there in April 2008.

My work has also been exhibited at the Llewelyn Alexander gallery in London, and throughout Sussex.

I was recently elected to be a member of the Sussex Watercolour Society.