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University for the Creative Arts   2008/2009

Susan Marshall

Susan Marshall is an artist who currently lives in Tankerton, in Kent.

My arts practice comprises of paintings in oil, alongside which, I make wearable garments in fabric. I use colour intenseley in my paintings through the process of repeat pattern. In contrast to this my fabric draping is figurative and delicate with a lyrical and poetic hand in style.

My proposal submission would be to continue my work on a bound artist book of acrylic painted pattern cut outs. This book is called 'waiting room' and is about the process of fabric draping in an exploratory form of slow movement. I research my work through garment pattern drawing and by painting oil canvas plates which are arranged within a structural frame. This work is a way of exploring human spatial identity.

In my practice my aspiration is to make or paint the 'same over again'. It is therefore significant that when I use a brush, the brushwork and how that develops becomes really important. Using two colours as well, helps to really slow myprocess down completely.

I have applied to join the AA2A Scheme because I think it would significantly help me to explore ideas and move forward in my artistic development by being able to use facilities in an art college.