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Susan Rosenberg

“ Susan Rosenberg has always been interested in how she might visually express fragments of memory: whether in the ethereally anonymous human figures of her Mirages exhibition, or her latest work of plants and flowers. As with the figures, these are not flowers that can be named and pinned down, specified or identified. “They come from the recesses of the past,” she says, from travelling perhaps, when you glimpse a field from a train, or maybe the flowers that you see at a wedding. They get tangled up with previous experiences – flowers at births, or marriages, or deaths – the colours in the thread of memory.”

Justine Picardie from the essay in the Still, Life catalogue 2003

I use many techniques to create my work, combining traditional paint and pastel with 3D computer graphics images obtained from a digital body scanner. New technology leads me to new ways of thinking and seeing, but cannot replace the pleasure I derive from working with paint.

I was born in South Africa. I studied there and in the USA, at the University of Wisconsin, under the auspices of the Fulbright Programme, where I received an MA. in Printmaking and Drawing. I have lived in London for 20 years, but have spent extended periods of time in California, and back in South Africa. The light, colour and ambience of all three places influence my work.

I exhibit regularly at the Millinery Works Gallery in London, and in my studio at the annual Open Studios event at the Chocolate Factory in Wood Green, London. My work is always available to view by appointment at my studio. I also work to commission. My work ranges in size from a few centimetres to 2 metres. It is held in public collections around the world, including the National Gallery (Cape Town),Tatham Art Gallery, and Universities of the Witwatersrand and KwaZulu Natal in South Africa; British Rail, Kent County Council, City of Milton Keynes, John Radcliffe Hospital in the UK, Wustum Museum of Art and University of Wisconsin, USA; and in Private Collections in the UK, USA, SA, Canada and Europe.