Susan Sands - Painter/Printmaker


BIOGRAPHY
1957 BA degree in Fine Arts, University of Reading.
1957–59 Art for Schools Officer, Sheffield City Art Galleries
Exhibited with Northern Young Artists
1959–71 Ceramics Designer Malta Industries.
Book Designer and Illustrator for Eastern Universities Press, Singapore.
Writer and Illustrator for Thomas Nelson`s New Nations Readers.
1971–90

Founder member of Greenwich Printmakers.
Co-ordinated first post perestroika Anglo-Russian print exchange.
Exhibited at Royal Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Water colour Society and Whitechapel Open.

1990 Moved to Pembrokeshire.
1996

`Artists Against Pollution` several monoprints following the Sea Empress disaster, including a large work in the Aberystwyth University Arts Centre Open.

1999

The Welsh National Eisteddfod – Susan`s work selected for the fifth time.
` Women Artists and Pembrokeshire`, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery.

2000

Prizewinner at annual exhibition, National Society of Painters, Printmakers and Sculptors.

2003 `Out of India`, prints and paintings, Barbican Library, Barbican Centre, London.
2004

National maritime Museum, summer course tutor.

2005

Bristol Affordable Arts Fair.
San Francisco exhibition with Wales Trade International.

2006

Lines and Strata – Welsh Drawing, Theatre Muldan, Cardigan.
Positive Colour, Recent Work, Art Matters, Tenby.
Lorient Art Fair, Brittany (second year).

2007 Tenby Museum, Solo exhibition.
The Indian Connection, Barbican Library, London. Indian theme, see Barbican Pictures page.
2008 Press Gang.  Art Matters, South Parade, Tenby.  Major solo print exhibition.
Fine Art in the Gardens, Aberglasney (fourth year).
Fine Art and Craft annual show, St Davids Cathedral Cloister Gallery (tenth year).

 



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