The First Supper 1988 acrylic on panel
120 x 240 cm by Susan Dorothea White

PAINTINGS: Oils

"Susan Dorothea White ... explores the most intimate experiences of her life, as well as more topical subjects, in meticulously limned paintings on wood panels. Her ability to examine unflinchingly such personal milestones as her surgery for a benign brain tumour with a dazed self-portrait in a vertiginously askew hospital setting results in some of the most emotionally jarring narrative imagery in recent art."

Gallery & Studio, New York (1998)

The artist has developed a technique using multiple washes of acrylic paint on plywood panels, often accentuating the wood grain to create texture through translucent glazes. Major paintings are developed through preliminary watercolour compositions and from numerous drawings and pen sketches. The artist favours watercolour for spontaneous work, flower and nature studies.

The First Supper 1988 acrylic on panel
120 x 240 cm by Susan Dorothea White

PAINTINGS

"Susan Dorothea White ... explores the most intimate experiences of her life, as well as more topical subjects, in meticulously limned paintings on wood panels. Her ability to examine unflinchingly such personal milestones as her surgery for a benign brain tumour with a dazed self-portrait in a vertiginously askew hospital setting results in some of the most emotionally jarring narrative imagery in recent art."

Gallery & Studio, New York (1998)

The artist has developed a technique using multiple washes of acrylic paint on plywood panels, often accentuating the wood grain to create texture through translucent glazes. Major paintings are developed through preliminary watercolour compositions and from numerous drawings and pen sketches. The artist favours watercolour for spontaneous work, flower and nature studies.

MEDIA:Oils
Oils
53 Works to view
53 Works to view

  • Cul-de-sac, 1972
    oil with acrylic underpainting on composition board
    76 x 122 cm
  • Moving Trees, 1971
    oil on composition board
    86 x 183 cm
    Private collection, Australia
  • Boulders / Rock Composition, 1971
    oil on composition board
    61 x 91 cm
    Private collection, Australia
  • Estuary in Ochre, 1970
    oil on composition board
    90 x 121 cm
    Private collection, UK
  • Sunlit Trees, Lane Cove, 1968
    oil on composition board
    90 x 76 cm
    Private collection, Australia
  • Lane Cove River, Winter Light, 1968
    oil on composition board
    92 x 61 cm
  • Paul, Soulful Young Boy, 1968
    oil on composition board
    30.5 x 25 cm
  • East Coast Landscape, after Bushfire, 1967 circa
    oil on composition board
    90 x 121 cm
    Private collection, UK
  • Portrait of Baby Paul, with Hands, 1965 circa
    peinture à l’essence on cardboard
    60 x 40 cm
  • Michaela Cuddling Paul, 1965
    oil on composition board
    91 x 61 cm
  • Bush Flagstones, 1965
    oil on composition board
    109 x 91 cm
    Private collection, Australia
  • Outcrop, 1965
    oil on composition board
    122 x 183 cm
  • Michaela Pointing to Baby Paul, 1965
    oil on composition board
    51 x 84 cm
  • Babies: Michaela and Paul, 1965
    oil on composition board
    40.5 x 50.5 cm
    Private collection, Australia
  • Baby Paul, Hot Summer Night, 1965
    oil on composition board
    122 x 91 cm
  • Baby Paul, 1965
    oil on composition board
    41 x 47 cm
  • Baby Michaela, 1964
    oil on home-prepared duck on composition board
    57.5 x 46 (var)
  • City Skyline, 1963
    oil on composition board
    22 x 61 cm
  • Paddington Street by Night / Moonlight, 1963
    oil on composition board
    122 x 183 cm
  • Sleaford Mere, Port Lincoln, 1962
    oil on composition board
    40 x 61 cm
  • Inland Wilderness / Singing Silence, 1962
    oil on composition board
    59 x 129 cm
    Private collection, Australia
  • Desert Sunset, Line of Lode, Broken Hill / Evening Sky, 1962
    oil on composition board
    42 x 62 cm
  • Perce (remaining fragment of destroyed painting), 1962
    oil on composition board
    81 x 29 cm
  • Rosalind Hughes, 1962
    oil on composition board
    61 x 44.5 cm
  • Brother Bill Reading, 1961 circa
    oil on composition board
    42 x 33.5 cm
  • Dad (WRB White) under Tungsten Light, 1961
    oil on composition board
    48 x 42 cm
  • Sunset: Salt Creek, Tumby Bay, South Australia, 1961
    oil on composition board
    41 x 58 cm
  • H L (Les) Cotton, 1961
    oil on composition board
    58 x 48 cm
    Private collection, Australia
  • Wide Waterway, Outback Creek, 1961
    oil on composition board
    55 x 90 cm
  • Beach Scrub, Port Lincoln / Pigface, 1961
    oil on composition board
    45.5 x 61 cm
  • Hot Day, Ocean Pool, Fishery Bay, Port Lincoln, 1961
    oil on composition board
    48 x 61 cm
  • Dry Creek Bed, Broken Hill, 1961
    oil on composition board
    43 x 53 cm
  • Dad Working at Kitchen Table, 1961
    oil on composition board
    91 x 76 cm
    Verso: Rocky landscape, 1960 (76 x 91 cm)
  • Flick (Felicity Thompson), 1960 circa
    oil on composition board
    44.5 x 44 cm
    Private collection, UK
  • Rocky Landscape, 1960
    oil on composition board
    76 x 91 cm
    (verso of Dad working at kitchen table, 1960, 91 x 76 cm)
  • Ted Wearing Glasses, 1960
    oil on composition board (saw-cuts on right side)
    53.5 x 39.5 cm
  • Stirling Vale Creek, Drought, 1960
    oil on composition board
    58 x 90 cm
  • Stirling Vale Creek, 1960
    oil on composition board
    58 x 90 cm
    Private collection, Australia
  • Still Life at Julian Ashton Art School, 1960
    oil on canvas board
    56.5 x 43 cm
    Private collection, UK
  • The Pinnacles, 1960
    oil on composition board
    64 x 92 cm
    Private collection, Australia
  • Market Gardeners, Approaching Storm, Two Wells, Adelaide Plains, 1960
    oil on composition board
    42 x 50.5 cm
  • Rocky Ridge, Scrub and Dry Grass, Overcast Afternoon, 1959
    oil on composition board
    45.5 x 61 cm
  • Tree by Dry Creek Bed, 1959
    oil on canvas board
    37.7 x 45.3 cm
  • Uncle Ted in Dressing Gown, Reading, 1959
    oil on composition board
    82 x 66 cm
  • Sunlight on Quartz Rocks, Approaching Storm, 1959
    oil on composition board
    56 x 115 cm
    Private Collection, Australia (exhibited: ‘Painters and Sculptors of Promise’ The Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, 1959)
  • Summit Rock, Hazy Light, 1959
    oil on canvas-board
    50 x 60.5 cm
  • Brown Creek Gum and Saltbush, 1958
    oil on canvas board
    60.5 x 50 cm
  • The Creek Gum (Umberumberka Creek), 1958
    oil on canvas board
    51 x 38 cm
    Private collection, Australia
  • Mine Shaft, Northern Outskirts, Broken Hill, 1958
    oil on canvas board
    38 x 50.5 cm
  • Erosion / Outback Erosion / The Creek Bed , 1958
    oil on canvas board
    35 x 30 cm
  • Saltbush and Creekbed, 1958
    oil on composition board
    47.5 x 51 cm
    Private collection, Australia
  • View of the Simpson's from Ivymeade: Gum and Horse , 1957
    oil on canvas paper
    22.5 x 18.5 cm
  • Nine Mile Creek (tributary of Stephens Creek, Broken Hill), 1957
    oil on canvas board
    35 x 30 cm

PAINTINGS : Oils 53 Works
PAINTINGS : Oils 53 Works


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