Born Wiltshire 1969

Susie Brooks is a printmaker and illustrator, making artwork for galleries, publishers and art buyers locally and internationally since 1991. She has a BA Honours Degree in Illustration and a Masters Degree in Multidisciplinary Printmaking from Bristol UWE. Her work is widely collected and cherished. Commissioned by Tate Galleries, National Trust and St Paul’s Cathedral, and in permanent collection in museums, her work is just as at home in the gift shop as in the gallery.

“I use traditional dip pens to make my ink drawings. My prints are hand made at Spike Print Studio in Bristol and at my studio workshop at home in Wiltshire. I enjoy the physicality of making prints; the time spent in the process is challenging and absorbing, the finished product is not the only reward. I am firstly a draughtswoman, my work almost always starts with a line drawing with colour notes alongside. I add colours later in the print studio using paper cut stencils. I prefer the flat quality of colour in screenprint which also enables me to work in layers. The printing process cannot be rushed, so it leads to considered decisions. The common theme I return to is ‘landmarks’. This could be landmarks on a journey, or sometimes from my life: significant places, objects, maps or memories. Lots of maps.”

Commission or buy prints from her website shop.