Sue Arrowsmith
Sue Arrowsmith is a painter whose work has long been rooted in the formal qualities of abstraction and temporality refracted through the natural world. Photographed tree forms and leaf clusters amid branches of blossom and weeping willows permeate her work.
She creates a connection between the photograph and painted translation by capturing the essence of natural forms. Her paintings evoke the subtly and enigmatic beauty of haikus. The tension between abstract and actual in her work remains taut as a bow string while the presence has been enriched by her growing belief in innate expression and her more experimental approach to materiality.
Arrowsmith received a BA from Goldsmiths College in London. Her work has been exhibited widely in the United Kingdom and Europe. Arrowsmith has won numerous awards including the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition in 1997 and the NatWest Art Prize, London in 1998. She was appointed as the Artist in Residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut in 2010.
Arrowsmith lives and works in South East London.
“I am interested in exploring themes of light, gesture and space through the energy and rhythm of mark-making.”
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