Susan Sutton is a painter of significantly detailed oil paintings on canvas which embody social observations and specific subjects along Victoria's Surf Coast. There is particular emphasis on the region along the Great Ocean Road between Geelong and Lorne. Susan's representational Surf Coast images have become well known and widely accepted in recent years as iconic paintings of living experiences around the southern beaches of Australia.City images, mainly from central Geelong, portray obviously different subjects but nonetheless the same feeling of actually ' being there '.  ''Inspiration for my works is usually a response to personal involvement in an event or a situation. I paint best what I know and understand in the region I have lived most of my life.... familiarity and research for detail form the basis of my created images. My paintings are usually populated with many figures which I use to convey the social narrative, while the ambience and mood of the particular place or situation are conveyed through the effects of colour, light and atmosphere. All of these are extremely important components of my work. '' Susan Sutton originally obtained a Diploma of Art at RMIT and trained as a secondary school art teacher. She later went on to spend decades in family businesses before commencing her career as a serious artist in the late 1990 s. Apart from six joint exhibitions by invitation, there have been nine solo exhibitions, the most significant and most recent being at QDOS Arts in February 2006 and January 2008 and also at the Geelong Gallery in October/November 2008. Susan has an extensive range of awards to her name and works represented in many private collections in Australia and around the world. © QdosArts 2010. All rights reserved. Copyright of the artworks featured on this site is held by the respective artists