About Suzanne
Suzanne is an artist living and working in her coastal studio beside Brisbane‘s bay.
Suzanne is a coastal artist living and working beside Brisbane’s bay, where the shifting tides and ever-changing light shape the heart of her practice. With a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art and a Visual Arts teaching qualification, she began her creative journey in Western Australia before travelling abroad and eventually settling in Queensland to teach Visual Art.
After stepping away from full-time teaching to raise her family, Suzanne continued to create in quieter moments. She has now returned to her practice with renewed focus, drawing on her strong foundation in the visual arts to develop a body of work that reflects both her experience and her connection to the coastline she calls home.
Originally trained as an interdisciplinary artist, Suzanne’s current work centres on mixed-media drawing and painting. Mark-making—its immediacy, rhythm, and physicality—remains the backbone of her process. Through layered colour, gestural lines, and atmospheric shifts, she creates seascapes that move beyond representation. Each work becomes a narrative: an exploration of memory, place, and the subtle conversations between water, sky, and shoreline.
For Suzanne, painting is a way of tracing the emotional tides of the bayside landscape—capturing not only what is seen, but what is felt.
Bio
Education
Graduate Diploma In Secondary Education, Visual Arts - Curtin University of Technology.
Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art - Curtin School of Art, Curtin University of Technology.
Diploma of Arts (Art and Design) - Western Australian School of Art, Design and Media.
2026 Group Exhibitions
Horizon Line - January live auction, Artbid
2026 Art on The Pier , (Finalist) The Queenscliff Art Prize
2025 Group Exhibitions
Sincerely Yours - December timed auction, Artbid
Foot Square 2025 (Finalist) - Aspire Gallery
Bliss Summer Exhibition - Aspire Gallery
Still Becoming - September live auction, Artbid
July Group Show, Petite Collection
Incognito Art Show
Brisbane Affordable Art Fair
Landscape - April timed auction, Art Bid
Land Sea Sky 2 Exhibition, Petite Collection
Emerging Artist Prize (Finalist), Revival Art and Design Gallery
Petite Pieces Prize (Finalist), Aspire Gallery
Bright Beginnings - January live auction, Artbid
2025 Art on The Pier (Finalist and Seascape Category Winner), The Queenscliff Art Prize
2024 Group Exhibitions
Foot Square Exhibition (Finalist), Aspire Gallery
Bliss, Aspire Gallery
Incognito Art Show
Book Plate Art Project, Hometurf Art
Petite Pieces (Finalist), Aspire Gallery
2023 Group Exhibitions
Foot Square Exhibition (Finalist), Aspire Gallery
Major Mini Christmas, Petite Collection - Mia Oatley
Past Group Exhibitions
Degree Show, School of Art, Curtin University of Technology.
Graduate Exhibition, Western Australian School of Art, Design and Media.
West Australian College of Art’s 6th Annual Art Auction
Under Glass Exhibition
Northbridge Live and Light
Hung Exhibition