Sue Bartlett studied at Thames Valley University, Reading
and graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 2005.
She now works from a studio in Mortimer, Hants and
regularly exhibits work at Modern Artists
Gallery, Whitchurch, Berkshire, Sarah
Wiseman Gallery, Oxford & Red
Biddy, Farnham and at the Barker
Gallery in Eton, Windsor.
Sue Bartlett comes from a family of makers,
parents, grandparents and siblings who made their living as
furniture makers, seamstresses and french polishers. The
familiar scents and textures of their raw materials were
part of her childhood and she felt that although their
'art' was their occupation, there was still a deep
fulfilment to the 'making' and producing the extraordinary
out of the very ordinary.
It is this fascination with the process of making and the
experimentation of materials that she brings to her own
work, producing colourful, abstract wax pieces that are
tactile and have been described as 'organic' and almost
'edible'. She enjoys the idea that they appear to be
spontaneous and gestural and yet are very carefully
considered both in the choice of shape and form and of
colour.
Sue's work is innovative, using materials that have existed
in art for hundreds of years but with a unique slant.