SUSIE HARTY

My art practice is predominantly focused on sound art, drawing and ceramics. I let my meditative experience of nature guide my work, taking inspiration from the intuitive process and delicacy of artists such as Christin Johansson and William Blake, and the nature-based writing of Sharon Blackie.

There is much to learn in the emerging of one’s own practice, and mine has changed significantly this term as I navigate the ways of making that are available to me. The creative unknown beckons, and with it come liberating movement and mark-making that fill my page, a freedom of edges and shapes, and colour that pools and gathers in a collection of playful forms.

I enjoy the mesmeric timelessness of sound art and use it to describe my connection with nature; trees my friends and plants and animals my equals.

We observe one another with reverence and mutual appreciation. With my artwork I would like to acknowledge this manner of relationship; the aliveness of the world.