GOING SOLO
Sue Vass
Paintings
20 November – 7 December 2024
This show is a selection of work completed over the last two years while I’ve been a student at The Essential School of Painting (ESOP) in Wood Green , London.
I embarked on the Advanced Painting course in September 2022 and completed it in July this year.
The course gave me the opportunity to completely immerse myself in painting and become part of a community of artists.
At the beginning of 2023 I made ‘The ties that bind’ – a piece of work about the bond I had with my mum which led me to explore through my work what it is to be human; such as connection to each other and our environment, memory, imagination, dreaming and the unconscious.
Sue Vass The fall, oil in canvas,104x139cmI’m lucky enough to now have a studio space at ESOP for at least another year, there, ‘my only focus is in the joy of playing with paint and nothing else’
Sue Vass Sands of time Oil on canvas 120×120 cm
Sue grew up in Brighton, enjoying its edgy vibrancy of the 60’s and early 70’s . She qualified as a teacher in 1975 and during a career spanning almost 30 years Sue initially taught PE then Art in both mainstream and special provision.
While teaching and raising a family she gained a BA Hons in Fine Art at KIAD , Canterbury in 2001.
After retiring from the teaching profession Sue qualified in psychology and psychotherapy from the European Therapy Institute and worked in private practice and as a school counsellor until 2014.
Sue is an interdisciplinary artist and has exhibited in spaces across Kent both individually and collaboratively.
