WELCOME Painter/Printmaker Susan Sands welcomes you to her virtual gallery and takes pleasure in showing you some of her recent work. She produces acrylic, watercolour, oil and gouache paintings as well as lithographs, etchings, wood - and lino-cuts, plus collagraphs. From this broad base she dispenses with a house style (it is sometimes difficult to recognize a recent Susan Sands!), preferring a technique best suited to a particular theme. So expect a huge variety of approach!
Though largely a figurative artist, experiments with collage have allowed for improvisation and sheer fun, leading to more abstract work.
INFLUENCES
In the last fifteen years, many visits to India, land of her birth, have led to a resurgence in interest in the people, colour and pattern and the development of her sketches into larger works. See the page heading 'Barbican Pictures'.
She and her husband support a small school in Tamil Nadu, where, off the beaten track, she can draw simple village life; though even then she is often surrounded by children blocking her view, and has to put the landscape aside, and draw the surrounding crowd instead.
For information on the above and this charities response to the Tsunami disaster see www.irdt.info
