Susan Mannion
Susan is a full-time professional artist and curator, passionate about enamelling and printmaking, in particular, the specialism of vitreous enamel on copper and wood engraving. Susan works with paper, wood, copper and steel making her mark with ink and coloured glass, each transformed by pressure in a press or heat in a kiln, an alchemy. Suan’s work both embraces the tradition of enamelling, and also seeks to push the boundaries of this form.
Susan is influenced by landscape and patterns in nature, fascinated by the meeting point or transition from one form to another, where water meets the shore or when hard architectural shapes are reflected on the soft forms of water in a river or lake surface. Her work evolves from observed detail captured by sketching then laying down the image onto the vessel or copper plate surface creating intricate thread-like lines and fine textural incisions to create an atmospheric, surreal aesthetic, distilling a sense of place, time and memory.
