Artist Statement

Susan McCall lives and works in High Peak, Derbyshire.

Landscape is the dominant theme throughout my life and my work reflects this continuing fascination.
I usually begin with movement - a walk, a boat trip, or a cycle ride through the natural landscape.

The drawings and paintings are memories of those experiences. The joy, excitement and awe of the colour, light and texture seen whilst cycling along a green lane or glimpsed whilst boating through the landscape or walking on the moors is still overwhelming.

The smells of bluebells, heather, hawthorn, bracken and earth: the blues and greens, the pink and whites and the gold and reds of the landscape and the sounds of bees, grouse, curlews and skylarks combine feelings, visual observation and physical experience in order to create energetic images.