Susan Gordon Photography
Artist Statement
Susan Gordon is a photographic artist whose artwork focuses a great deal on London architecture. She delights in the creation of patterns using a vast colour range and monochrome.
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More about the artist
Susan Gordon a photographer living in London. Her life began on a beautiful hillside within the farmland of the Kenyan Highlands. In her twenties, she set off for Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) in search of adventure and a job in antiques dealing. She loved working with the top auctioneers in Harare - times were turbulent and, to a backdrop of war, they sold everything from cattle to jardinières. Susan left Harare in 2003. Being a Londoner meant big lifestyle changes and fresh starts - photography became an important part of cataloguing her new story.
She spent hours walking around London capturing its people and places and felt lucky having this history and tales of so many great people on her doorstep. Some of her photographs have inspired pattern making. Patterns can be reassuring, safe spaces to think. They can be mathematically dazzling and take your mind on a journey.
For her, Eduardo Paolozzi’s Tottenham Court Road mosaics became reflective tunnels; Norman Foster’s Gherkin, a space-age grid; Conrad Shawcross’s metal trees became a mechanical kaleidoscope; and the trade centre of Bush House, colourful patterns like the Kashmiri cottons imported to Africa.
Some of the evolving designs are available as silk printed scarves. Others are proposed as pictures, fabric, tiles and greeting cards. More recently designs have been based on nature and the magic of light. Then when freedom returns life will take her back to the thrill of a London story.
She aims to re-visit the French House in Soho where she will continue drafting ideas should you want to share one.
