Susan Bower exhibition, Kentmere House Gallery, York, (From York Press)

Susan Bower exhibition, Kentmere House Gallery, York,

9:33am Friday 3rd September 2010 in

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SUSAN Bower’s new collection of oil paintings has arrived at Kentmere House Gallery, Scarcroft Hill, York.

“We are very fortunate to be able to show Susan’s work as she is now much in demand nationally and most of her work is sold in London or the south,” says gallery owner Ann Petherick.

Susan lives near York with her family, two dogs and a cat, many of whom feature in her paintings.

“Her delightfully wry sense of humour comes across in all her works, which centre on observations of familiar domestic situations,” says Ann.

Born in Yorkshire in 1953, Susan did not have any formal art training but has painted and drawn all her life. Then, 20 years ago, she received tuition from the artist Bill Selby, who was living nearby, and she has been a professional artist ever since, now showing in galleries in London and around the country.

She was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Oils in 1992 and the Royal Society of British Artists two years later, and she has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition every year for the past 15 years. She also shows with the New English Art Club, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Singer & Friedlander exhibition, and in 2008 she had her first London solo show at the Russell Gallery in Putney.

“I paint the familiar and the intimate – family scenes, outings and people observed in restaurants and on family occasions,” says Susan, whose prices range from £900 to £2,500.

Kentmere House Gallery is open every Thursday evening, 6pm to 9pm; the first weekend of each month, Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 5pm; and at any other time by appointment on 01904 656507. Susan’s paintings also can be seen on the gallery website, kentmerehouse.co.uk