Art on Exmoor since 1893

All work : Sue McDonagh [Biography]

Sue McDonagh

Sue McDonagh

This dynamic artist has been a successful artist for over 16 years. She began to paint in her mid twenties when she was fighting cancer, and her police colleagues presented her with a beautifully made pocket set of watercolours.
She subsequently married a Welshman who had been widowed by cancer - helped to bring up his two boys, and retrained as a swimming teacher. The many days spent on the beach provided her with endless artistic inspiration - especially the images of the children playing. She loves to capture their unselfconscious movements and absorption in play. Her own joyous appreciation of life is abundantly evident in her dynamic and lively use of colour and form.
Sue particularly loves the medium of pastel for the soft yet vibrant quality it imparts to her sunny images. Her work also reflects her empathy with small children - she understands their curiosity and wonderment in the simple things - shells, pretty pebbles, sun on water, wet sand under fingers, waves lapping on the beach.

Sue McDonagh

Sue McDonagh

This dynamic artist has been a successful artist for over 16 years. She began to paint in her mid twenties when she was fighting cancer, and her police colleagues presented her with a beautifully made pocket set of watercolours.
She subsequently married a Welshman who had been widowed by cancer - helped to bring up his two boys, and retrained as a swimming teacher. The many days spent on the beach provided her with endless artistic inspiration - especially the images of the children playing. She loves to capture their unselfconscious movements and absorption in play. Her own joyous appreciation of life is abundantly evident in her dynamic and lively use of colour and form.
Sue particularly loves the medium of pastel for the soft yet vibrant quality it imparts to her sunny images. Her work also reflects her empathy with small children - she understands their curiosity and wonderment in the simple things - shells, pretty pebbles, sun on water, wet sand under fingers, waves lapping on the beach.

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