Suzanne Bethell

About the Artist

Colour, its capacity to excite the eye, engage the heart and awaken the soul is central to Suzanne Bethell’s art. She is interested in exploring ways in which the interaction of colour can evoke powerful, personal responses in a viewer. As an experimental, mixed media, visual artist creating paintings, assemblages and mono prints, her practice is initially intuitive, led by process and choice of colour palette. Each new series is triggered by an emotional response to a blend of internal and external stimuli such as surfacing memories and moments in time. These may in turn arise from a sense of place, a piece of poetry or music.             

Suzanne has exhibited widely throughout the UK. Successfully submitting work to an open call from the Whitworth Art Gallery, Suzanne’s painting: Moment of Balance is now available as a high quality print at the Whitworth Art Gallery shop.. Her work is in private collections nationally and internationally in Sweden, Spain, Australia and new Zealand.

Painting and creating from early childhood, Suzanne has a BA Hons in English Literature (University of York), a Foundation Degree in Art and Design - distinction (2000) and a Complete Printmaker award with Hotbed Press Salford (2018).

She is an associate member of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester and a member of Hotbed Press, Salford. Her large, light filled studio in Goyt Mill, Marple, overlooks the Manchester skyline.