Capturing Beautiful Skies

Local artist Susie Olford is coming out of hibernation. Winter, for Susie, is always a time for sorting oil and acrylic paint stocks, framing and planning her Spring and Summer Exhibitions. But now that the warmer days are here, her focus and passion is on capturing the many shades of light and warmth of the Sussex coastline.

Her painting style is relaxed and varies in range from cool, soft-blended oils, to more vibrant acrylics. It is impressionist in style with moods of land, sea and weather, but never sad moods. It’s Susie’s skies that often attract viewers to her work. They are lively and expressionist, varying in style and often a celebration of colour - skies that we dream about.

Rather than confine herself to a studio, Susie moves her easel depending on the weather and light and she paints in a variety of sizes. As she lives close to the sea in Clymping, the coastline is often in her paintings, but landscapes feature too.

Susie’s work will be showing in the Regis Trail as part of the Open Studios (covering a radius around Chichester) between the 4th to the 6th May, and 11th to the 12th May 2019. Susie’s venue is a spacious, light filled barn in Flansham.

After that, she heads to the warmer climes of the Charente region of France before returning in August to exhibit at the Arundel Gallery Trail, her venue being the Arundel Library. Susie has been lucky to exhibit in the Library foyer for several years now and describes it as “A wonderful Art Trail at which I’m honoured to exhibit”.