Ilona Suschitzky

I am a fine artist, originally trained in South Africa, but working in London and Paris. I have continually renewed my work, which has always remained rooted in traditional practices such as painting, drawing and graphic work.

My work is always figurative and often combines all three practices with the use of threads of red, to interweave the different elements as a means of embedding the threads into my drawings and painting.

For a long time I painted only Amaryllis Lilies but more recently I have begun to make one-off artists books. Though my subjects might change, my obsession has always lain in telling a story without words that depends on observed reality and its relationship to the imagination.

B.A. (Fine Arts) M.A. Teaching Worked for 10 years as Personal research assistant to Sir Lawrence Gowing. Slade Professor (now Emeritus) Apart from book illustration I have been involved in an ongoing drawing project with Photographer Sarah Moon

2017 Paper Works, joint exhibition with photographer, Sarah Moon, Camera Obscura, Paris, France
2015 One work included in Sarah Moon Exhibition – ALCHIMIES - Grand Galerie d’Evolution, Paris, France
2015 Shown with Sarah Moon at Camera Obscura, Paris, France
2015 Joint work with Sarah Moon included in Sarah Moon Retrospective, NOW and THEN, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
2008 Group Show – Fine Modern British and Contemporary Painting Henrietta Barnett Main Hall, London
2003 One Man Show - The Trafalgar Hilton, London
1992 Mural paintings commissioned for Whistles, London
1991 One Man Show - The Boundary Gallery, London
1990 One Man Show - The Phoenix Gallery, London
1988 One Man Show - The Phoenix Gallery, London
1982 One Man Show - The House Gallery, London
1980 One Man Show - The Ben Uri Gallery, London