GAIA - part of the Triptych collection 2026
“The most effective alert to the threat of climate change is likely to come from the world of art rather than of science, because art has such an extraordinary way of cutting across human society.”
Thomas Lovejoy - conservation biologist (1941-2021)
About me…
I’ve worked in the field of engineering for most of my career. I got such a kick out of creating safe and enjoyable places for people to inhabit. During my latter years this developed into a significant focus on sustainable solutions. I’m still heavily invested in pushing the sustainability agenda, however, I feel of late that I have failed in my part to communicate this effectively within the industry.
Commencing a sabbatical from corporate life in 2025 to focus on family issues ignited a long held artistic passion. This started to grow during COVID with the work I undertook with Lion aid charities to support the protection of wild lions in Africa.
My latest collection merges my maturing unique artistic style with the urgent threat of climate change.
This new chapter in my creative journey excites me, and I hope you’ll join me in enjoying my art, but also exploring the ‘loud’ and ‘quiet’ conversations and information embedded in my art pieces.
Together with can make a difference to our home planet.
Susan x
Triptych collection
LAST ICE - 2026
Second part of the triptych collection.
This painting was created using media elements from my expansive book collection along with around 10 layers of acrylic paint medium to communicate key facts and ‘tell the story.’
Displaying data and images, otherwise locked in a book, in a painting allows the viewer to interact with the information, hopefully on a daily basis.
Engineering taught me the benefits of Osmosis. My art is seeking to use this science based solution to enable the viewer to naturally absorb the urgency of climate change impacts and ACT.
Triptych collection
ONE HOME - 2026
Third part of the triptych collection.
This painting created using media elements from my book collection along with around 10 layers of acrylic paint medium to communicate key facts and tell the story.
Displaying data and images, otherwise locked in a book, in a painting allows the viewer to interact with the information, hopefully on a daily basis.
ONE HOME seeks to take the viewer on a journey. The depth of images and painting enables a new ‘journey’ to be undertaken every time to look at the painting. You get the ‘loud conversations’ when you stand back, but getting up close allows you to see the ‘quiet conversations’. To feel how all of our planet inhabitants are interconnected.
Engineering taught me the benefits of ‘system thinking’ a holistic problem-solving framework that focuses on understanding the interconnection, relationships, and behaviour of a systems as a whole, rather than just its individual parts. The interlacing of engineering data with the images of the natural world in this painting is an attempt to display this principle.
Triptych collection
GAIA - 2026
First part of the triptych collection - and features on the home page.
This painting was the first created as part of this initial collection to launch my new art work. I can remember clearly the morning I started this work. I stood at my easel a blank canvas before me and a building frustration in the current geopolitical instability of the world. Listening to a president saying the words ‘Drill baby drill’ ! I PAINTED MY EMOTIONS!
