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Susan Spencer graduated in Fine Art Painting from Wimbledon School of Art in 2006 and currently paints in London. Having worked and studied previously as a biologist, Susan combines a passion for the natural world and environmental issues with artistic concerns, in order to explore the boundaries between the two.
Susan Spencer’s recent work arose following research, conducted at the Natural History Museum into crinoids, a group of marine organisms with a plant-like structure who have inhabited the oceans worldwide for over 500 million years. Feeding upon oil-rich plankton, crinoids are particularly pertinent to current concerns regarding pollution and fossil fuels: their fossilised remains are often used as indicators in oil exploration. Referencing both scientific and artistic traditions in combining labour-intensive observational studies with oil painting on gessoed panels, she hopes to awaken a sense of awe and wonder towards the natural world as well as reflection upon the challenges it faces.
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Crinoid Series 1- 'Apiocrinus', Oil, Italian metal leaf on gessoed panel 20cm x 9.5cm - £255.00
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Crinoid Series 3 - 'Parisangulocrinus', Oil, Italian metal leaf
on gessoed panel 18cm x 11cm - £255.00 |
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Crinoid Series 5 - 'Eutaxocrinus', Oil, Italian metal leaf
on gessoed panel 25cm x 16cm
£280.00 |
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Sea Lily 2010, monoprint 30x18cm £
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Sea Lily (ii)2010, monoprint 30x18cm £
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Crinoid Series 2 - 'Periechocrinites', Oil, Italian metal leaf
on gessoed panel 18cm x 11cm - £255.00 |
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Crinoid Series 4-'Platycrinites', Oil, Italian metal leaf
on gessoed panel 26cm x 14.3cm - £280.00 |
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Cronoid Series 6 Kallimorphocrinus,
Oil, Italian metal leaf on gessoed panel 20cm x 14cm £270.00
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| Sea Lily (i)2010, monoprint 30x18cm £ |
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