Suzanne Winn

I am a landscape artist living in rural Hampshire. My work is focused on the value of connection with nature. My inspiration comes from the landscapes around my home. Here we enjoy long views and big skies that never cease to captivate me. I believe that connection with the landscape can help us in many ways. Nature can be a great healer. For me the landscape is a place to feel free and alive. When the human world can feel uncontrollable, in a state of chaos and flux, I take comfort in the quiet rhythms, constancy and continuity of the landscapes around me. My paintings are a celebration of the energy, beauty and timelessness of the landscapes and big skies that surround my home. They also speak more broadly to the theme of our relationship with the natural world. Nature is under threat in so many ways. My hope is that my work will help others to notice and connect with nature’s energy, vitality and beauty. If we can notice, appreciate and value what we have, perhaps we can all work together to sustain and protect our precious planet. I begin by going out drawing within the landscape, using charcoals and/or pastels. I draw for the joy of it and to stay attuned to the landscape as it changes from season to season, from day to day, from moment to moment. Back in the studio I paint expressively, often in oils from my sketches, memory, and from photographs that I have taken whilst out working and walking in the fields. I also enjoy painting with watercolours and inks, as a complete contrast to the process of painting with oils. I love how these mediums have an unpredictability and life of their own, and I enjoy following where they take me. I anchor my work in what I have seen and observed, but my focus is to work instinctively and intuitively, conveying a sense of how it felt to be in moments of connection with nature. I am represented by Wychwood Art Gallery in Oxfordshire, and London-based art consultancy Artfully Sorted. I exhibit regularly, with recent highlights include participation in several shows at London’s Mall Galleries, with the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (RI), the ING Discerning Eye (ING DE), and the Pastel Society (PS).