Working with acrylic, vintage dress pattern paper, latex, plaster, sand, and other tactile materials, Susannah builds restrained surfaces from processes that are deliberately laborious.

Her practice draws from the language of avant-garde fashion: construction and deconstruction, concealment, repetition, material experimentation, and the complex systems hidden beneath seemingly simple forms. Pattern paper becomes texture rather than instruction. Latex moves from the body to the canvas. Materials associated with building, clothing, and utility are layered until their original purpose begins to disappear.

Influenced equally by fashion, brutalist architecture, and natural erosion, the work considers what happens to materials after function is removed. Traces remain—creases, seams, fragments, buried instructions, irregular surfaces—allowing each painting to hold evidence of what came before.

Rather than seeking perfection, the work preserves process.

With a background in fiber arts, a discipline of precision and control, Susannah spent years refining a practice that left little room for spontaneity. Having exhibited and sold work internationally, her current approach is intuitive. Entropy push against one another, revealing quiet emotion through texture and tone.