Suzanne O’Driscoll – portfolio

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Exhibition information

Suzanne welcomes visitors once again to her light‑filled studio in Bladon for this year’s Artsweek exhibition, Connections. The showbrings together work from different stages of her career, offering visitors an opportunity to experience how herideas have developed, shifted and re‑emerged over time.

While Suzanne’s practice has absorbed a wide range of visual influences, a continuing fascination with natural form runs through everything she makes. These forms are reinterpreted in her own highly individual, often reimagined, landscapes — producing work that is always changing and yet remain consistently interconnected.

By placing earlier and more recent pieces side by side, Connections reveals the threads that link past and present. Ideas first explored years ago resurface, evolve and take on new forms. The exhibition is both a retrospective glance and an ongoing conversation, celebrating the development of Suzanne’s work while recognising enduring ideas at the heart of her practice.

Above all, Connections invites visitors to make their own links — between past and present work, between different media, and between artworks and the natural environment.

The show includes paintings, drawings, prints and metal sculptures, offering a rich overview of her work in different media.  Display books will also be on show documenting many of her public art projects — such as a recently completed decorative noticeboard and benches, designs for a garden fire pit, and an ongoing project for new bridge railings over a rare brook. 

Suzanne’s first-floor studio looks out over an unusual quarry garden, which forms an important source of inspiration for her work, and is easily visible from the studio, providing a unique backdrop to the work on display.

Visitors are warmly encouraged to make a day of it. The White House Village Community Pub is close by for refreshment, and there is some parking available at the studio and around the village.

Come and enjoy an informal and friendly visit — you’ll be very welcome.

Artist information

Suzanne started her career studying Fine Art at Central School of Art and Design in London, and later as a post-graduate at the Slade School of Fine Art. After training, Suzanne was awarded a traveling scholarship to Mexico and Guatemala, and later a fellowship to the British School at Rome. Travel has continued to influence her work throughout her career, visiting many countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and also America and Canada.
In this studio show Suzanne will be exhibiting a selection of her colourful paintings and her distinctive mixed media drawings on textured papers. These works, influenced by her travels, show how her work has developed over the years. Also on show will be her limited edition metal sculptures inspired by forms in nature.
Many of Suzanne’s larger paintings and drawings hang in many corporate headquarters, and she has been commissioned for works in hospitals and other public buildings. Two large paper-works, commissioned for the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, now hang in the John Radcliffe Hospital. In mid-career Suzanne began making wall-mounted relief and freestanding sculptures in metal. This area of her work grew, and she has become well known for her many public art works. She will be showing designs, photographs and models of her many public art projects.
Her latest project was a commission for benches and a noticeboard in Marcham, and this year she started design work for decorative railings on three pedestrian bridges over a chalk-based brook.