Full Moon

Susan Lincoln was born in the North East and has been a prolific painter for the last 25 years. In 2006, she began to exhibit her paintings, and was pleased when her work was immediately well-received and rapidly became collectable. Renowned Cumbrian artist Conrad Atkinson was an early collector of her work. Over the last five years, she has enjoyed a growing chain of exhibitions across Cumbria, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and Edinburgh.

 

Susan is inspired by her African Grey parrot, which often sits on her shoulder as she paints in her studio in Cumbria. Susan currently lives on a smallholding near Penrith, surrounded by wilderness, wildlife and ponies and is also heavily inspired by the landscape around her and the way it changes with the seasons. Horses, birds and flowers feature strongly in her vibrant, richly painted work and she prefers to paint directly onto canvas without drawing first, working vigorously and spontaneously. Painting largely in isolation allows Susan to give her imagination free rein. This is how she describes her paintings: ‘I like my work to have a happy or magical element to it. Art should make you smile as well as think. I feel I have the perfect career. When I am painting everything seems right, the outside world falls away and I am immersed in my own subject and experience. When starting each new painting I visualise in my mind the key elements of the work and paint directly onto the canvas. I use acrylics because they dry very quickly.

 

‘Every painting is a challenge for pleasure and enjoyment.’ These joyous paintings reflect that.