Originally from London but now living in Buckinghamshire working from her home studio, Susan is a painter whose work explores the expressive power of shape and materiality using the human figure, often the female form. Rooted in psychoanalytic theory, particularly Freud’s concept of sublimation, her practice investigates how subconscious desires surface through form and gesture.
Her process is emotionally immersive and materially rich and includes freestyle charcoal drawings on layered wood panels, glazing, excavation and repeated adjustment. Susan’s paintings often resist illusion, embracing flatness and breaking the picture plane to assert physical presence.
Influenced by semi-abstracted figuration and artists such as Teresa Pagowska and Roger Hilton, Susan’s work couples psychological depth with painterly experimentation, where instinct, mark-making and mixed media converge.
Susan D'Alton 