Managing director and resident artist printmaker of Eastgate Studio in Beverley, East Yorkshire. Susan uses hand-drawn and digital images to create linocut, etching, aquatint, and screen prints.

Her work investigates the environment and environmental issues, themes explored through a series of linocut prints of the East Coast of Yorkshire. In addition, she’s working on a series of prints on the theme of “water” and the way the surface texture signals what lies beneath. Her work varies from a detailed exploration of texture to a minimalist approach exploring colour and shape.

Susan collaborated with graphic designer Joseph Cox, to develop the digital files in preparation for the screenprint Window Reflected on Pool Water. Indeed, the image could have been reproduced as a digital image, and any prints produced from the digital files would be exactly the same and could be printed in limitless numbers. However, digital images produce a very different aesthetic to analogue. Although one of the aims in analogue printmaking is to be able to reproduce the same image in multiples, each print can be slightly different due to manual handling of machinery, equipment and inks, and the variable condition of the workshop.

Susan also administers the day-to-day operations of Eastgate Studio printmaking and gallery spaces, teaches and supports a variety of printmaking techniques to Eastgate Studio members and workshop attendees.