Susan Horsfield Explained

Susan Horsfield (Platts)
Birth Date:1928
Nationality:British
Birth Place:India
Education:Regent Street Polytechnic
Known For:Painting and watercolour
Movement:Regent Street Group
Birth Name:Susan Horsfield
Style:Figurative painting

Susan Margaret Horsfield, later Susan Platts (born 1928) is a British painter and former art teacher who works in a variety of media.[1]

Biography

Horsfield was born in India in 1928 and graduated in Fine Art from the School of Art at Regent Street Polytechnic in central London in 1952 where she was taught by Patrick Millard and Norman Blamey. She has travelled extensively in Africa where she worked as an interior designer and taught in a government school.[2]

She married Mr Shelley Platts in August 1952 at Felpham, near Bognor Regis and has four children.[3] She was head of the art department at Farrington's School Chislehurst, London from 1969 to 1986, also lecturing in further education and at field study centres.

Horsfield had her first solo exhibition at the Walker Galleries in London in 1956, going on to exhibit with the London Group, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Watercolour Society. Horsfield was a member of the Women's International Art Club from 1957 to 1969, serving on their executive, selection and hanging committees in the early 1960s. She was a member of The Regent Street Group - a group of nine artists who studied together at the Regent Street Polytechnic in the early 1950s.[4] The group also included Valerie Thornton, Renate Meyer, Michael Lewis, Ken Symonds, Philip Le Bas and Peter Riches.[5] [6]

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Galleries

References

  1. Book: David Buckman. Art Dictionaries Ltd. 2006. Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L . 0-953260-95-X.
  2. Book: Spalding, Frances. 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. 1991. 9781851491063. Woodbridge, Suffolk. 248.
  3. 25 August 1952. Her gown was worn in 1893. The Daily Mail. 2.
  4. 24 September 1953. Mr Herman's New Paintings. The Times. 8. The Times Digital Archive.
  5. Bone. Stephen. 29 October 1957. Paintings with a Personality. The Manchester Guardian. 5. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  6. Bone. Stephen. 21 September 1953. London Galleries: Foreign Artists and Regent Street Group. The Manchester Guardian. 3. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  7. McC. B. 22 June 1968. Susan Horsfield. Arts Review. 20. 12. 377.
  8. 13 December 2003. Art. The Independent. 14. 14 February 2021. The Independent Historical Archive.
  9. Rye. Anothony. 31 August 1957 . Summer Salon. Art News & Review. 9. 16. 6.
  10. Rye. Anthony. 12 October 1957. The Women's International Art Club. Art News & Review. 9. 19. 2.
  11. Blakeston. Oswell. 11 April 1959. Five Painters. Art News and Review. 11. 6. 7.
  12. Times Art Critic. 14 April 1959. Work of Five Painters. The Times. 3.
  13. 14 August 1959. People Getting Tired of Prints: Unprecedented Demand for Originals. West Sussex County Times. 4.
  14. Wright. Barbara. 27 February 1960. W.I.A.C. Art News & Review. 12. 3. 5.
  15. 30 January 1961. Women's International Art Club. The Times. 14.
  16. 13 January 1962. Drew, Horsfield, Thornton. Arts Review. 13. 26. 13.
  17. Wright. Barbara. 24 May 1969. WIAC. Arts Review. 21. 10. 337.
  18. 10 June 1967. Susan Horsfield. Illustrated London News. 2.

External links

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