About Sue

Sue Jelley PPSWA SPF working in the Surrey Hills enjoys using Acrylics, Oils and Pastels. She is a Director of the Society of Women Artists (SWA)  and she was their President from 2012 to 2017, She is also a member of the Societe des Pastellistes de France (SPF) and a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers and is a past Chairman of their Art Society.

 

Sue Studied  under James Hockey of the West Surrey College of Art from 1984 - 1987. She then went on to study and work in London and Paris with the Portraitist Ken Paine. Much of her work is inspired by the body language of her models, especially musicians and dancers and she likes to create an atmosphere of passion and movement in all her works.

 

 Whilst in Paris Sue spent time working with The French Pastel Society where her love of portraiture and her work with the models inspired her latest series of works 'Face and Places of the World'. It was during her visits to 'Le Petit Journal' in Paris and the famous Jazz venues of New Orleans that spawned a lifelong love of Jazz and its many interesting characters.

 

 Of particular interest Sue was commissioned by the BBC to produce paintings for the Radio 2 and 3 Jazz Awards where Quincy Jones was awarded a 'Lifetime Achievement Award' and he bought the portrait she painted of him for this very special occasion.