About me, my art... and you

"...nature captured through intuition and memory. Absolutely beautiful!" (Resh, Oct 24)

Artist Susan Marie Williams in art studio drawing a hyacinth artwork with oil pastels

I love making art. I love the way I make art. And I love the art I make. Otherwise I couldn't possibly share it with the world.

My intuitive creative process is very special to me. It allows art to emerge freely from a place inside me that always seems to be filled with positive energy and light.

It’s a place where my imagination joins with my knowledge and memories from a lifetime's affinity with nature, allowing me to capture the essence of my subjects, with every moment of wonder I've ever felt being distilled into each new piece I create.

To make the art, I draw freehand, with spontaneity, and choose my colours instinctively. No reference photos. I simply let the lines and shapes find their own way.

I like to work fast and I pour a lot of energy into what I’m creating.

I love how that energy makes itself visible, either physically in the strokes I make or in the overall character and spirit of each finished piece.

My childhood: my inspiration

My childhood was special. Energy all around me. My family. Three older brothers, always fun. Two older sisters, always attentive. Best mum and dad in the world.

And me, the littlest, loved by all.

Tons of praise. Laughter. Creativity. Fairy tales. True life stories.

All of us encouraged to be the individuals we should be.

And me, happy to soak it all up.

In spite of losing my dad when I was seven, I cherish the memory of my childhood. It was such an intensely warm, interesting, loving time, an experience that shaped everything I am.

My mum was Austrian, arriving in England in 1947. She knew what it was to feel different. And she gave me a deep understanding of the value of being true to myself.

I carry a consciousness of my childhood with me every day. 

And I carry the love and freedom of my childhood into my art through my creative process - how I paint and the colours I choose both adding a childlike exuberance to what you see.

My lifelong love of nature

As a kid growing up in rural North Yorkshire when I did, it was almost impossible not to make a strong connection with nature.

I loved all the wild flowers that grew in the fields and hedgerows and the creatures and birds that thrive there too.

I learned all about them, absorbed all their detail and gave them a permanent place in my heart, along with the rich true colours that nature is made of.

My close affinity with nature became an integral part of me.

Flowers will always play a significant role in my art.

Portraying flowers from my imagination allows my creativity to run free. I can draw on my memory of a real flower and make it my own, or simply make up a beautiful new flower to take your imagination to a new place, maybe without you even realising it.

Flowers can be the sole focus of my art, or they can provide colour and beauty to compliment or support the main subject.

With flowers, the possibilities are endless. They allow my art to bring the warmth, the energy and the sense of individuality, freedom and joie de vivre I grew up with.

I'm so glad to still be able to relate to the precious world of my childhood.

The truth is, though, life sometimes takes a dip.

There's no getting away from it, we all have times in our lives that are painful, damaging, distressing, destructive. Anything can happen in this life. That's something I've known from a very early age.

In spite of that, and in spite of life's troubles that never really seem to stop, my art is endlessly hopeful and bright-spirited.

So I want you to feel what I feel when I'm making - and seeing - the art I make.

Enlivened, enriched and lifted.

Happier.

Transported to a better world.

To recognise in it, and reconnect with, the energy and optimism of childhood; to be conscious of the inexhaustible possibilities of nature; and to indulge in colour whose sole purpose is to brighten your day, whatever that day brings.

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