ARTISTS from the Scenic Rim are continuing to excel in major national competitions.
Tamborine Mountain’s Susan Lhamo is the latest to be recognised for the outstanding quality of her work.
Her painting “Vasilisa’s Sorting Table” joined just 29 others from 732 entries as a finalist in the Art Gallery of NSW’s Sir John Sulman Prize.
The Sulman is one of Australia’s longest-running art prizes, having been established in 1936.
It is now held concurrently with the Archibald Prize, Australia’s best-known art prize, and also with the Wynne Prize, at the NSW Art Gallery.
Her entry depicted part of the centuries old Eastern European folktale Vasilisa the Brave.
Susan, who is an abstract artist, said the tale relates to young women, instructing them on how to gain intuitive insight and make wise choices in life.
“I love to paint intuitively as a way of interpreting memories, life experiences and inner emotional states,” she said.
“My paintings employ mark making to develop symbolic ideas, with an emphasis on colour relationships as a method of evoking mood and feelings.
“I hope that viewers of my paintings can relate to the work’s presence, and consider what it triggers or inspires internally,” she said.
Susan has exhibited widely in group and solo shows, with five solo exhibitions to date.
