Statement
Suzy Fasht was born in London in 1964 and studied at the Royal Academy Schools and Wimbledon School of Art. She has lived in South Devon for many years where she paints and teaches part time. She was elected an Associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 2018.
Suzy’s paintings are a response to the nearby moor, forest and garden with its changing seasons and produce. She begins with a simple on the spot pencil sketch which is developed in Watercolour in the studio into more imagined worlds. These lead to larger oils and more defined egg temperas.
She is a former pupil of Norman Adams RA, Timothy Hyman and Prunella Clough.
Suzy has exhibited in London, Devon and Cornwall including at the Royal Academy Summer exhibition and was recently shortlisted for the Lynn Painter Stainers prize. She spent a year as artist in residence at the London Business School and commissions include a painting for the Laura Ashley Foundation of the view from the family home in Wales
Biography
TRAINING
1995-8 Royal Academy Schools, PG Diploma painting
1992-5 Wimbledon School of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art
1991-2 John Cass School, Art Foundation course
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Yew Tree Gallery, Cornwall
2018 Royal Watercolour Society Open
2018 Lynn-Painter Stainers prize, Mall Galleries
2017 Tiny Gallery, Henley
2017 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2017 Royal Watercolour Society Open
2016 Royal Watercolour Society Open
2015 Rowley Gallery, London (ongoing)
2014 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2011 Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth
2008 Somerville Gallery, Plymouth
2006 Whitespace Gallery, Totnes
2001 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries
2001 NEAC, Mall Galleries
1997 Cromwell Hospital, (solo)
1997 Royal Academy Summer exhibition
1996 Royal Academy Summer exhibition
AWARDS, etc
2018 Elected associate member of The Royal Watercolour Society
1998-9 London Business School, year's residency
1998 Cyril Sweett Award for Outstanding Post-graduate show, Worshipful Co. Painter Stainers
1997 M&G prize for an artist under 35, Royal Academy Summer exhibition
Silver medal for painting, Royal Academy Schools
Creswick prize for landscape painting, Royal Academy Schools
Leverhulme scholarship
Pennycress scholarship
COLLECTIONS
Chevron UK, London Business School, Laura Ashley Foundation, M & G group, Northwick Park Hospital, Private collections
