About Artist Selected Artworks Exhibitions

About Artist

Susan Preston is an abstract painter using oil paint and pastel. These are mobile and versatile mediums; the imagery changes through the painting process, dissolving and reforming as a layered, ambiguous space develops. Through this meditative process, the work alludes to memory traces, to the shifting spaces between presence and absence, loss and retrieval.
A piece is eventually resolved when the tension between the layers and the elements on the surface draw the viewer into the space, where the painting reveals its secrets slowly; these works repay contemplation.
Susan Preston has exhibited widely, including in Strasbourg and London. Her work is in collections in Europe, Asia and the USA.

Selected Artworks

Exhibitions

After an absence of several years we are delighted to have lured this private and intimate painter to make a new series of 6 pastel drawings for us to launch at the London Art Fair:
Toy I, Toy II, Toy III, Cracker, Crackers and Leaving, 2022, Pastel and graphite on prepared paper, 17.7 x 20.3cm, £695 each (Framed)