sue ogilvy : artist
about
My artwork is primarily concerned with nature and the environment. Although I have always drawn and painted from early childhood, I trained originally in agriculture and nutrition and worked as a nutritionist in England, Sudan and Indonesia. I qualified later as a science teacher and since then have worked in secondary schools in Australia, Japan and England. On retirement from school teaching I have had more time to pursue my love of painting and I gained a fine art degree at the University of Creative Arts in Farnham. I now work in my studio on our small cattle and sheep farm in West Sussex.
I am particularly interested in the form, pattern and colour of the natural world. I have looked at the mathematics underpinning the structure of natural forms in particular the spiral formation found in shells, pinecones and ammonites. I have a collection of fossils and this inspired a series of prints and drawings of trilobites. Often a mathematical grid forms part of the image.
I am a keen gardener and so my flowers often appear in my paintings. I work in watercolour and in acrylic and I am experimenting with cut paper and card and collage work. I particularly like to use layers in the painting so that a story can emerge.
I have exhibited regularly and my paintings are in many private collections. I am a member of Borderlands Artists' Consortium and Catalyst - Women, Art and Science. I still work with children as a field teacher at local nature reserves and have conducted art workshops in schools, with youth groups, at exhibitions and at field centres.
Group Exhibitions:
I am particularly interested in the form, pattern and colour of the natural world. I have looked at the mathematics underpinning the structure of natural forms in particular the spiral formation found in shells, pinecones and ammonites. I have a collection of fossils and this inspired a series of prints and drawings of trilobites. Often a mathematical grid forms part of the image.
I am a keen gardener and so my flowers often appear in my paintings. I work in watercolour and in acrylic and I am experimenting with cut paper and card and collage work. I particularly like to use layers in the painting so that a story can emerge.
I have exhibited regularly and my paintings are in many private collections. I am a member of Borderlands Artists' Consortium and Catalyst - Women, Art and Science. I still work with children as a field teacher at local nature reserves and have conducted art workshops in schools, with youth groups, at exhibitions and at field centres.
Group Exhibitions:
| May 2011 |
Borderlands Artists' Consortium, 'Inside: Outside', Haslemere Museum, Surrey. |
| March 2011 | Catalyst 18, 'Energetic Women'.Havant Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant. |
| March 2011 | Catalyst 18, 'Energetic Women', The King's Theatre, Southsea. |
| September 2010 |
Haslemere Art Society Exhibition, Haslemere Museum, Surrey. |
| May 2010 | Art@ Baker Tilly, 27th Exhibition of Art, Members of the Borderlands Artists' Consortium, Baker Tilly, Clock House, Guildford, Surrey. |
| February 2010 |
Borderlands Artists' Consortium Exhibition, 'Borders', Allen Gallery, Alton, Hampshire. |
| October 2009 | The Stride Open Competition and Exhibition, Oxmarket Galleries, Oxmarket Centre of Arts, Chichester, West Sussex. |
| September 2009 |
Haslemere Art Society Exhibition, Haslemere Museum, Surrey. |
| July 2 - 6, 2009 | Free Range 2009 Graduate Art and Design Summer Shows, ‘Scrambled Eggs’, UCA Farnham Graduate Show, The Boiler House, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL. |
| May 29 - June 6 2009 | UCA Farnham Fine Art Degree Show, University for the Creative Arts, Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7DS. |
| October 2008 | The Stride Open Competition and Exhibition, Oxmarket Galleries, Oxmarket Centre of Arts, Chichester, West Sussex |
| September 2008 |
Haslemere Art Society Exhibition, Haslemere Museum, Surrey |