Susie Monnington

Evocative abstracted paintings
Inspired by Outer Hebridean beach wanderings
​​Working with light and the effects of light, what you feel but cannot see.

Delicate veils of shape shifting sand blown across the shore by relentless winds, running like ghosts sprinting to nowhere. A never-ending dance along the shore.

Seaweed washed up on sand, deposited in lines resembling manuscript staves with dried kelp spore sacs, scattered like crotchets and quavers, pushed and pulled backwards and forwards with the tide’s ebb and flow.

Golden lichens grow like splotches of splattered paint forming weird hieroglyphs, circles and crescents on ancient rocks.

Endeavouring to paint the invisible, this collection of paintings has emerged from an intense and focused practice allowing the paint to be alive and to sing. Forever open to surprises, alert and ultimately inviting in a painterly playfulness.

Having found a lifetimes worth of inspiration in the Outer Hebrides, I am constantly drawn to the quality of light and space on these remote islands, where nature and the elements lead the way. Exhilarating; enthralling; intoxicating.

More from my recent collections can be seen on my website at and on Instagram at susiemonn_art

BA 2.1 Fine Art Central St Martins School of Art London
MA Fine Art University of Brighton

I am represented by the Gallery at Glyndebourne.My work can also be seen at The Belgrave-St Ives, Jane Newbury in Dulwich, London and the Ashdown Gallery. I have shown in Artwave-Lewes exhibition for a number of years in various venues as well as the Brighton Festival.