Hayfield Artists at Ashlar Studio

Susan Mccall: Landscape paintings inspired by light and atmosphere.

Ann Lyon: Hand-built ceramic pots and sculptural pieces reflecting natural forms.

Jo Toft: Hand-built stoneware ceramic sculptures inspired by form and textures of the natural world.

Faith Fraser: Three-dimentional tiles based on rhymes and stories.

Susan McCall is an artist who lives and works in the Peak District of Derbyshire, UK. She exhibits regularly with Hayfield Artists and Derbyshire Open Arts as well as with Jack Sevens Gallery, Macclesfield. She has work in the National Collection, corporate offices and private collections both nationally and internationally.

After working in education as Senior Lecturer, Fine Art for many years Susan gained a Rootstein Hopkins Award for painting and has been able to devote her time to work in her studio.

Residencies at Tate Liverpool, Manchester Art Gallery and Charleston House in Sussex have focused on drawing and painting and teaching iPad apps for making drawings, recording experience and exploring a sense of place.

Susan makes drawings in sketchbooks using charcoal, pencil and oil pastel, as well as on iPad, whilst walking or travelling and these form the basis for her paintings and iPad prints.

Drawing is the means for thinking and understanding. It is the tool for developing an idea, exploring composition, or is spontaneous and experimental through mark and gesture. Drawing is the expression of the experience of place.

The strong, vibrant and dynamic oil paintings develop this moment of seeing and create a response to that experience in visual terms. The loose, gestural use of oil paint explores the spirituality and emotion of being in a place and reflects her interest in the natural elements of light and space, colour and texture in the landscape.

www.susanmccallartist.com