Drawings : People

"Susan White is constantly sketching from everyday life and it is from the many sketchbooks that she first extracts the material for her compositions." (A. Wernig, Munich, 1980)

The artist works in a variety of drawing media: pen and ink, ballpoint, brush, crayon, chalk, pastel, conté, and charcoal. Recently she has developed mixed media techniques in silverpoint and goldpoint.

"Capturing the essence in line alone is for me the purest form of expression."

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People: The human narrative and genre scenes inspired by domestic situations, people at work, musicians, commuters, social issues, blindness, illness, poverty, old age. Portraits include family members, self-portraits, children, babies, and people in their environment. In major paintings the subject is repeated from varied viewpoints in a fugal style composition.

Fifth Continent (Kirsten Barry, oboe, Mornington Gallery) 2004
drafting pen, black ink
20.3 x 21 cm
D-2004
Fifth Continent, Anthea and Simon (Anthea Cottee, cello and Simon Rickard, bassoon, Mornington Gallery) 2004
drafting pen, black ink
20.3 x 21 cm
D-2004
Imy, Cadbury and Patch 2003
drafting pen, black fibre-tip and spittle wash
20.8 x 12.2 cm
D-2003
Pronated right and notes, 'Lost for Words' 2003
pencil
42.2 x 29 cm
D-2003
Supinated hand and notes, carving 'Lost for Words' 2003
pencil
42.2 x 29 cm
D-2003
Fuel for Thought (and Lost for Words assemblage) 2003
drafting pen, black ink
20.8 x 29.8 cm
D-2003
Fuel for Thought and Lost for Words (assemblage idea) 2003
drafting pen, black ink
20.8 x 29.8 cm
D-2003
Fuel for Thought (Olympic tyre) 2003
drafting pen, black ink
20.8 x 29.8 cm
D-2003
Fuel for Thought - One Way - Oiling the Wheels (assemblage idea) 2003
drafting pen, black ink
20.8 x 29.8 cm
D-2003
Vintage Slippery Dip, Annandale 2003
drafting pen, black ink
20.8 x 29.8 cm
D-2003
Go Granny Go (my bicycle) 2003
drafting pen, black fibre-tip
20.8 x 29.8 cm
D-2003
Self-portrait in bicycle helmut 2003
drafting pen, black inks (2 tones)
51 x 38 cm
D-2003
Simon at Ararat (Simon Rickard, bassoon) 2003
pencil
21 x 20.3 cm
D-2003
Nicole at Ararat (Nicole Forsyth, viola) 2003
pencil
20.3 x 21 cm
D-2003
Pissing Plumber 2003
drafting pen, black fibre-tip
20.9 x 14.1 cm
D-2003
Despair (self-portrait) 2003
drafting pen, black ink
20.9 x 14.1 cm
D-2003
Plumbing ideas for assemblages 2003
drafting pen, black ink
20.9 x 14.1 cm
D-2003
Stephen pensive 2009
drafting pen, black ink
42 x 29.3 cm
D-2002
Courante (Stephen Freeman, violin) 2002
pencil
29.3 x 42 cm
D-2002
Stephen, bow hand, 2 studies 2002
drafting pen, black fibre-tip (2 tones)
29.3 x 42 cm
D-2002
Imy listening to Grandpa reading Harry Potter 2002
pencil
20.3 x 21 cm
D-2002
Imy (new glasses) 2002
pencil
21 x 20.3 cm
D-2002
Stephen and Hannah in Semele (violins, Pinchgut Opera) 2002
pencil
20.3 x 21 cm
D-2002
Semele, Pinchgut Opera (orchestra) 2002
pencil
21 x 20.3 cm
D-2002
Gaia at Mannum 2002
pencil
21 x 20.3 cm
D-2002
Auguste Rodin, Galatee, marbre (Rodin Museum, Paris) 2002
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 20.3 cm
D-2002
Abbottsford Cove in the Dark (Smasch correcting English translation Blechschmidt) 2002
watercolour and black ballpoint pen
14.1 x 20.9 cm
D-2002
Botticelli fresco, Louvre (hands) 2002
drafting pen, brown ink
14.1 x 20.9 cm
D-2002
Stephen Freeman (violin), New Dutch Academy Soloists 2006
drafting pen, brown ink
14 x 20 cm
D-2001
Sketch of elbow with hands placed on circular table 2001
drafting pen, black ink
29 x 42.2 cm
D-2001
Flexion 2001
drafting pen, black ink
21.8 x 26.9 cm
D-2001
Extension 2001
drafting pen, black ink
21.8 x 26.9 cm
D-2001
Cynthia and Stephen jamming in Tuscany (Cortona) 2001
drafting pen, brown ink
14.1 x 20.9 cm
D-2001
Giotto Eyes 2001
drafting pen, black ink
20.9 x 14.1 cm
D-2001
Train to Pontassieve (Giotto eyes) 2001
drafting pen, black ink
20.9 x 14.1 cm
D-2001
Michelangelo (Florence, Academy) 2001
drafting pen, black ink
20.9 x 14.1 cm
D-2001
San Matteo (Michelangelo, Florence, Academy) 2001
drafting pen, brown ink
20.9 x 14.1 cm
D-2001
Prigione, Michelangelo (Florence, Academy) 1 2001
drafting pen, brown ink
20.9 x 14.1 cm
D-2001
Donatello, David, Florence 2001
drafting pen, black ink
20.9 x 14.1 cm
D-2001
Lombardy Sculpture, 10th Century, Milano 1 2001
drafting pen, black ink
20.9 x 14.1 cm
D-2001
Lucca della Robbia (Florence, children's hands holding trumpet) 2001
drafting pen, brown ink
14.1 x 20.9 cm
D-2001
Natania (torso) 2001
drafting pen, black ink
21 x 20.5 cm
D-2001
Staring out Competition 2001
pencil and black ballpoint pen
14.2 x 20.8 cm
D-2001
Sole of Brian's left foot 2001
drafting pen, brown ink
20.5 x 29.7 cm
D-2001
Keep an Open Mind, Empty Headed 2001
drafting pen, black ink
29.7 x 20.5 cm
D-2001
Gardenia 2001
drafting pen, brown ink
20.5 x 29.7 cm
D-2001
Gardenia (two flowers) 2001
drafting pen, black ink
20.5 x 29.7 cm
D-2001
Reinventing the wheel 2001
(study for Reinventing the Wheel, sculpture)
drafting pen, black ink
20.5 x 29.7 cm
D-2001
Dawing Self-Portrait Flayed! 2000
drafting pen, black ink
20.5 x 29.7 cm
D-2000
Jumping out of one's skin 4 2000
drafting pen, black ink
20.5 x 29.7 cm
D-2000
Jumping out of one's skin 3 2000
drafting pen, black ink
20.5 x 29.7 cm
D-2000
Jumping out of one's skin 2 2000
drafting pen, black and brown inks
20.5 x 29.7 cm
D-2000
Fit as a Fiddle 2000
drafting pen, black ink
20.1 x 14.7 cm
D-2000
Observing form - Hollow of a hand moulds around mango form. Seeing is perceiving, not believing 2000
drafting pen, black ink
14.7 x 20.1 cm
D-2000
Smasch and Paul clasping same hands - The Eye of a Storm 2000
drafting pen, black ink
14.7 x 20.1 cm
D-2000
Stephen, Scotts Church, Melbourne (concert) 2000
drafting pen, black ink
14.7 x 20.1 cm
D-2000
Gedion Nyanhongo, 'Grinding', Shona sculpture (Chapunga Gallery, Melbourne) 2000
drafting pen, black ink and spittle wash
14.7 x 20.1 cm
D-2000
Smasch with mug of tea, RN Park 2000
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
14.7 x 20.1 cm
D-2000
Cascades, Crystal Pool, Royal National Park 2000
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
14.7 x 20.1 cm
D-2000
Lucinda Moon and Stephen Freeman (ABO) 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
14.7 x 20.1 cm
D-2000
Gaia (Pennington, South Africa) 3 2000
drafting pen, black ink
14.7 x 20.1 cm
D-2000
Stephen leading Salut! Concert 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 29 cm
D-2000
Salut! Baroque (Lucinda Moon, Sally Melhuish, Stephen Freeman) 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 29 cm
D-2000
Stephen (violin bridge) 2000
drafting pen, black ink
21 x 29 cm
D-2000
Susie LeBlanc, soprano and Margaret Waugh, cello (ABO) 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 29 cm
D-2000
ABO, Angel Place (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra) 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 29 cm
D-2000
Michaela and Gaia (South Africa) 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
29 x 21 cm
D-2000
Michaela Feeding Gaia (South Africa) 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 29 cm
D-2000
Gaia playing in sand (South Africa) 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 29 cm
D-2000
Gaia (two heads, Pennington, South Africa) 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 29 cm
D-2000
Imy and hand 2000
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
21 x 29 cm
D-2000
Skateboard (dog, Pennington, South Africa) 2000
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
21 x 29 cm
D-2000
Michaela and Graham (Wedding, Pennington, South Africa) 2000
drafting pen, black ink and spittle wash
21 x 29 cm
D-2000
Imy drawing (Pennington, South Africa) 2000
drafting pen, black ink
21 x 29 cm
D-2000
Self-portrait in saucepan lid with 2000
drafting pen, black ink
19.2 x 24.1 cm
D-2000
Sebastiano del Piombo, Woman ... clutching hair' sculpture 2000
(British Museum #148)
drafting pen, brown ink
24.1 x 19.2 cm
D-2000
Lightning figure for black Chillagoe marble 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
19.2 x 24.1 cm
D-2000
Right hand drawing of left hand - my own 2000
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
19.2 x 24.1 cm
D-2000
Brown Tree Snake (live display, Leichhardt Market Place) 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
19.2 x 24.1 cm
D-2000
ABO, Andreas School (singing), Deirdre and Paul Dyer 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
19.2 x 24.1 cm
D-2000
ABO, Stephen, Deirdre, Genevieve Lacey on recorder 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
19.2 x 24.1 cm
D-2000
Andreas Scholl, ABO, Angel Place, Stephen left foreground 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
19.2 x 24.1 cm
D-2000
Eric Hoeprich (clarinet), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra 2000
drafting pen, brown ink
14 x 20 cm
D-2000
Stephen Freeman - Baroque Violin 2000
pastel
26 x 42 cm
D-2000
Students in lecture theatre 10, Dr. Smasch's histology lecture 1999
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 28.4 cm
D-1999
Students in lecture theatre 9 (sleeping student) 1999
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 28.4 cm
D-1999
Students in lecture theatre 7 (Dr. Freeman with pointer) 1999
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 28.4 cm
D-1999
Students in lecture theatre 6 (3 heads in three-quarter back view) 1999
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 28.4 cm
D-1999
Students in lecture theatre 3 (student, pen in hand) 1999
drafting pen, brown ink
21 x 28.4 cm
D-1999
Next-door Neighbours (sculpture assembage idea) 1999
drafting pen, brown ink
17.8 x 11.9 cm
D-1999
Rapist 1999
drafting pen, brown ink
17.8 x 11.9 cm
D-1999
Stephen (playing violin) 1999
drafting pen, brown ink
23.7 x 33.1 cm
D-1999
Stephen (left profile) 1999
drafting pen, brown ink
23.7 x 33.1 cm
D-1999
Great Granny Reading to Imy 1999
pencil
23.7 x 33.1 cm
D-1999
Imy (right profile) 1998
drafting pen, brown ink
17.8 x 11.9 cm
D-1998-1999
Gaia (head and hand) 1998
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
11.9 x 17.8 cm
D-1998
Gaia (asleep) 1998
pencil
23.7 x 33.1 cm
D-1998
Smasch reading to Imy 1998
pencil
23.7 x 33.1 cm
D-1998
Imy (one eye) 1998
drafting pen, brown ink (foxing)
23.7 x 33.1 cm
D-1998
Michaela and Gaia 1998
drafting pen, brown ink
23.0 x 29.7 cm
D-1998
Elizabeth Wallfisch (Art Gallery of NSW concert) 1998
drafting pen, black ink
23.0 x 29.7 cm
D-1998
Two violinists 1998
drafting pen, black ink
23.0 x 29.7 cm
D-1998
Concert (Stephen Freeman, violin, Roseanne Hunt, cello) 1998
drafting pen, black ink
23.0 x 29.7 cm
D-1998
Concert (Hans-Dieter Michartz, flute, Jane Edwards, soprano) 1998
drafting pen, brown ink
23.0 x 29.7 cm
D-1998
Concert (Jane Edwards, soprano, Hans-Dieter Michartz, recorder, Stephen Freeman, violin) 1998
drafting pen, brown ink
23.0 x 29.7 cm
D-1998
Applying make-up 1998
drafting pen, brown ink
23.0 x 29.7 cm
D-1998
Speedy Deli (New York, Brian) 1998
drafting pen, brown ink
23.0 x 29.7 cm
D-1998
Speedy Deli (New York) 1998
drafting pen, black ink
23.0 x 29.7 cm
D-1998
Deity Vessel, Mexico (Metropolitan Museum, NY) 1998
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
14.6 x 9.5 cm
D-1998
6th Ave. from Manhatten Mall 1998
drafting pen, black ink
9.5 x 14.6 cm
D-1998
Julia in Boston (Julia Keil) 1998
drafting pen, black ink
24 x 19.2 cm
D-1998
Cafe, Columbia University Medical Center (New York) 1998
drafting pen, black ink
19.2 x 24 cm
D-1998
Thermal baths, Baden, Smasch holding rail 1998
drafting pen, brown ink
19.2 x 24 cm
D-1998
Smasch trying to get my attention? (Ennetbaden) 1998
drafting pen, black ink
19.2 x 24 cm
D-1998
Constantin Emile Meunier, 'La Douleur', bronze 1998
(Musée, Lausanne)
drafting pen, black ink
24 x 19.2 cm
D-1998
Constantin Emile Meunier 'Mineur à la veine', bronze 1998
(Musée, Lausanne)
drafting pen, black ink
19.2 x 24 cm
D-1998
Gianadda clapping (Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny) 1998
drafting pen, brown ink
19.2 x 24 cm
D-1998
ABO, Paul Dyer harpsichord, Stephen Freeman violin (pre-tour prom, ABC hall) 1998
drafting pen, black and brown ink
21.7 x 26.7 cm
D-1998
Columbia University Medical Center Cafeteria, New York 1998
drafting pen, black ink
19 x 24 cm
D-1998
Jordi Savall at Martigny 1998
drafting pen, brown ink
19 x 24 cm
D-1998
Storytime for Grandchildren 1998
drafting pen, brown ink
19 x 24 cm
D-1998
Stephen (2 heads, violin, bow) 1997
drafting pen, brown ink
45.2 x 37.5 cm
D-1997
Mossy Point (jagged rocks) 1997
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
37.5 x 45.2 cm
D-1997
Mossy Point 1997
drafting pen, brown ink and spittle wash
37.5 x 45.2 cm
D-1997
Stephen, foreshortened violin 1997
drafting pen, brown ink
37.5 x 45.2 cm
D-1997

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