Susan Morley Watercolour Artist

BIOGRAPHY

Susan Morley was born in Dublin.  She comes from a family which produced some distinguished artists in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, notably the watercolourist John Henry Campbell, & his daughter,  Cecelia Margaret Nairn, the first woman exhibitor in the R.H.A.

She attended the National College of Art & Design in Dublin 1968-73. She first exhibited in the Lad Lane Gallery, Dublin in 1976

She since exhibited in many group shows including the Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin & Belfast ;  the Solomon Gallery,  Dublin ; The R.H.A. Annual Exhibition ; Urban Retreat , Dublin ;  Patterson’s Fine Art Gallery, London ;  Galerie Pomie, Lot,  France .

She had two solo shows in the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 1995 & in 1999

In 2004 she had a solo show at Origin Gallery, Dublin, entitled “ The Goblet of
Light “, influenced by the sea, rocks & megaliths of Kerry & the Burren.     

In 2007 she had a one person show entitled “Artist in the Languedoc”  at Origin Gallery, showing paintings from that area of  southern France,  where she lived from 2004 &  where she still paints

She has worked extensively to commission.  Her work hangs in many private collections.

She is a member of the Graphic Studio Dublin

She lives on the Iveragh Peninsula, in South West  Kerry