Susan Webb
Susan Webb was born in Newtownards, County Down in 1962. Daughter of well-known artists Kenneth Webb and Joan Webb, she has carved out her own niche as a painter since her first exhibition with the Kenny Gallery in 1980.
She is involved with the Equestrian Society of Artists, won the prestigious "Spirit of Galway" award for one of her fine equestrian paintings, and has shown with the Oireachtas, the Society of Women Artists, and runs solo exhibitions in Ireland and the U.K.
Susan has contributed to an Arts Council sponsored tour of America. She now runs the Irish School of Landscape Painting, started by her father 40 years ago. Her father Kenneth Webb decided, to Susan's delight, to move his Irish School of Landscape Painting to their cottage near Clifden in 1975. This enabled her to hone her landscape painting skills under her father's watchful eye, and to meet with other artists and watch them work. The hinterland around their Ballinaboy home was an inspiration then, and continues to be a powerful influence today.
Today Susan runs the School of Landscape Painting from her River Run Studio in Ashford, Co. Wicklow and from Ballinaboy. In recent weeks she has featured as resident Art Expert on Channel Four's "Watercolour Challenge" programme. She spent three weeks filming in Armagh, Meath, Wicklow, Dublin and the Lake District, a novel experience which showcased her skills and talents to a huge audience.
Horses have always been an important part of Susan's life and so it was inevitable that she should try to capture their grace, beauty and movement on canvas. Many of these images were commissioned portraits, many were her own original ideas, all of them combined the art of equestrian painting with the art of landscape painting.