Sue Potter
Sue Potter | Printmaking | Devon
With a background in both graphic design and architecture Sue’s printmaking is influenced by both disciplines…
The process very often begins with a sketch: interrogation through drawing, painting, analysis and abstraction. Sue’s work explores: the graphic flat colour achieved from the relief process; the depth and surface texture of intaglio (and the counterpoint between flat, crisp colour and random surface granulation); the complexity and simplicity of geometry; and the visual playfulness of pattern and more recently through the repetition of component elements. Sue is also fascinated by the process of blind embossing which create ethereal surface textures and over the last year she has been experimenting with cutting and folding the embossed surface to create an additional layer of texture and three dimensionality…
Sue completed an Arts Foundation Course at Harrow College of Art followed by Graphic Design + Illustration. She worked as a graphic designer for a number of years before returning to study for a degree Architecture at Portsmouth University followed by postgraduate diploma and completing her architectural training at Kingston University in 2000. Sue worked in architectural practice for twenty years (both in London + Devon) before setting up her own practice two years ago.