About Susan
The Gardener
 

Artist's CV

Follow Susan on instagram @susanmcfarlaneart
And Twitter @Bedales10

Shortlisted for the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2020, Episode 3, series 7

Shortlisted for the Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2015 - to be aired on Sky Arts in October 2015

Shortlisted for the regional heat of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2013 - to be aired on Sky Arts in November 2013

Recent Publication 

500 Portraits: The BP Portrait Award

Author: Sandy Nairne

(National Portrait Gallery Publications - 2011)

Selected Exhibitions

2020 Scottish Portrait Awards, selected for the Fine art long list.

2020 Ing Discerning Eye Exhibition, online exhibition.

2017 The Ruth Rorchard Prize Exhibition, Piano Nobile Gallery, London.

2016 Solo Exhibition, The Flora Twort Gallery, Petersfield.

2016 Solo Exhibition, Fork Handles Kitchen, Petersfield.

2016  RSA Open Exhibition, Edinburgh

2013  Salisbury Art Trail, exhibiting at Myriad Antiques.

2008

'Contemporary Scottish Painting', Lloyds TSB Scotland 120 Henry Duncan House, George Street Edinburgh

2008

'Art of The Olympics', Scottish Widows 69 Morrison Street Edinburgh

2007

Festival Fringe Exhibition, Lloyds TSB Bank, George Street, Edinburgh

2007

'The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries, London

2006

Work featured on Channel 4's 'Property Ladder'

2005-present

Exhibiting throughout the U.K. in Lloyds T.S.B. Private Banking Offices.

2002

BP Portrait Award, The National Gallery, London.

2000

'Face to Face', a group show at Rowe and Maw, London.

1999

Marks and Spencer Head Office show, London.

1999

Solo Exhibition in Aberdeen Art Gallery Cafe, Scotland.

1998

'Nine Past Nine Present', The Gallery, Cork Street, .

1998

The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in watercolours, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

1997

The Royal Overseas League, 14th Annual Open Exhibition, Overseas House, London.

1997

Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London.

1997

Group summer show at The Florence Trust Studios, London.

1996

The Hunting Award at The Royal College of Art, London.

1996

The Morrison Scottish Portrait Competition, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

 

Art Awards and Prizes

1997

A Second Award from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1996

Duveen Scholarship to go to Barcelona, Spain. Awarded by The Slade School of Fine Art.

1995

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1994

John Kinross Scholarship to Florence, Italy. Awarded by The Royal Scottish Academy.

1994

The Valgra Trading Prize for Drawing, Edinburgh College of Art.

1992

Andrew Grant Bequest: Student Exchange to Tours, France.

1989

Cadbury’s National Children’s Art Exhibition – Italian Tour Winner.

 

Art Residencies and Teaching.

2015 - Head of Art and Design, Bedales Prep School, Steep.

2012 -2015  Teacher of Art, Leehurst Swan School, Salisbury. 

1998-2001 Teacher of Art History, Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

1998

Artist-in Residence, The Florence Trust Studios, Highbury, London.

1997  Artist-in Residence, St George's School, Harpenden, Hertfordshire.



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