SPOTLIGHT ON SUSAN ISAAC

Landscape Artist of the Year 2025

19th February – 22nd March 
Susan Isaac is a Cardiff born artist, now based in Nottinghamshire. The common thread in her work is an “endeavour to capture the spirit of things or places I have known, to seek to illuminate aspects of the world that have captured my imagination – to evoke feeling”.
 
Susan paints mostly in oils in a loose figurative style which occasionally dissolves into the abstract elements of her compositions, combining strong drawing skills with bold use of colour and application of texture. Her subjects are mainly towns and seascapes. She loves the insistent repetitive textures of the built environment contrasting with the gentle rhythms of nature. Her coastal depictions and harbour scenes are a transposition of childhood memory onto current day experiences.
 
Alongside this, many of her ceramic sculptures are a fusion of human and landscape forms. Hand-built stoneware geomorphic heads, referencing the mining landscapes of her birthplace, are enhanced using a variety of glazes and stains and are often wood fired to produce exciting and contrasting surfaces.
 
Not only has Susan, been awarded several awards for her work, but she  has once again been selected to take part in the popular TV programme  Landscape Artist of the Year 2025 (LAOTY).
 
Susan has appeared on two previous occasions in LAOTY, once as a  ‘wildcard’ winner at West Wycombe in 2021 and again in 2022, in a painting Pod at the Eden Project.
For keen followers of the programme you will now know that Susan’s  painting was selected from her heat to go through to the semi-finals, which will be televised on  Wednesday 5 March.
 
To celebrate Susan’s achievement of reaching the semi-finals , Gallery 6 are holding an exhibition of some recent paintings, along with some photographs from the heat. 

CATALOGUE

Senate House Passage, Cambridge (2021)

Oil on canvas

76x76cm

£SOLD

Southwell Minster and the War Memorial

Oil on canvas

51x51cm

£830 Framed

Thoresby Hall in Spring 2014

Oil on canvas

20x51cm

£430 framed /£365 unframed

 

Staithes Beck at Low Tide (2016)

Oil on canvas

61x61cm

£1100 framed

Westminster from Parliament Street (2018)

Oil on panel

30x30cm

£550 framed

Old Grimsby Harbour from below the Blockhouse on Tresco (2019)

Oil on canvas

51x20cm

£430 Framed

Igniting the Green Fuse (2023)

Acrylic & oil on panel

72x72cm

£1300 framed

Trapping Tanks, Winterton on Sea (2023)

Acrylic & collage on panel

30.5×30.5cm

£SOLD

Wave 2 (Salthouses) (2023)

Acrylic on panel

32x19cm

£SOLD

Wave 1 (Salthouses) (2023)

Acrylic on panel

40x23cm

£SOLD

British Horological Institute & Time Keeping Museum, Upton Hall (2019)

Oil on canvas

20x51cm

£430 Framed

Westminster in Winter (2024)

Oil on canvas

30x30cm

£445 framed

 

The King’s Life Guard London (2024)

Oil on canvas

30x30cm

 £445 framed

The Bay at Old Grimsby, Tresco

Oil on Canvas

20x50cm

£365 unframed

 

St Paul’s from the South Bank London (2024)

Oil on canvas

30x30cm

£445 framed

A Connection with Amsterdam

(Breakfast with Mair) (2025)

Oil on canvas

40x30cm

£550 framed

 

Artist’s Studio with Portrait

Oil on Canvas

61x61cm

£1100 framed

Bathers, Portleven Harbour

Oil on Canvas

76x76cm

£1415 Framed

Whitby Steps in the Evening

Oil on Canvas

22cmx30cm

£350 framed

The Swing Bridge, Whitby (2024)

Oil on Canvas

30x40cm

£540 framed

Polperro Harbour from the Quay

Oil on Canvas

76cm x 76cm

£1400 framed

Landscape with Monolithic Flint Nodules (West Wycombe Estate) (2020)

Oil on loose canvas

54x74cm

£950 unframed

From Gweal Hill on Bryher

Oil on Canvas

20x50cm

£365 unframed

 

Approaching Kelham Hall (2024)

Oil on canvas

31x23cm

£SOLD

Daughter, Artist, Mother (2025)

Oil on canvas

51x41cm

£650 unframed

Southwell Minster from Bishops Drive

Oil on canvas

40x40cm

£565 framed

The Gilstrap and Bandstand Newark on Trent

Oil on Canvas

51x51cm

£830 framed

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