Susan Kay lives and works in London but gets her inspiration from the sea.

Susan uses both photography and painting to capture the essence of the sea. The sea is shown from different shores, with changes in colour and texture over time and distance. By reducing the sea to basic graphic elements the artist simplifies the visual experience, providing the viewer with a calming meditation on the horizontal, gently influenced by changes in palettes.

Her use of digital photography in recent years complements, and augments, her study of the sea in painting.The photography maintains the earlier reductive quality while adding the emotional visceral component of a captured moment in time.By using photography rather than painting in these instances, we are allowed to share Susan’s immediate experience of the sea.

She received a classical academic education at the City & Guilds Art School and has been influenced by the artists Mark Rothko, Georgio Morandi and JMW Turner.

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Her work is in private collections in America, Europe and Australia.