About
Suzy Fasht was born in London and trained at Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools graduating in 1998. She has lived in South Devon for many years, currently based on the edge of Dartmoor. An elected member of the Royal Watercolour Society, her paintings have been exhibited around the UK including at The Royal Academy Summer exhibitions, The Sunday Times Watercolour competition, Lyn Painter Stainers prize and Discerning Eye exhibitions. Pictures were recently licensed for the newly refurbished suites at London's Dorchester hotel on the theme of the English garden.
Artist's Statement
"I am a painter based near Dartmoor in Devon, originally from London. I work in oils, watercolour and egg tempera which allows me to vary the scale and degree of detail in my work. My paintings respond to the natural world around me: the flowers I grow; the woods, moor and coastal paths where I walk.
Scale is an important theme and the vantage point of being inside the view, surrounded by plants as if I was a small animal, or suggesting the vastness of a view, such as in paintings of Dartmoor.
Lately I have been focusing more on close ups of entangled flowers, in particular wild flowers or weeds - noticing the impact of the unpredictable weather each year on what is thriving or not. The precariousness of our lives reflected in the short lived beauty of a flower."
Current exhibitions:
RWS Spring at Bankside gallery
28 March - 26 April 2025
The Royal Watercolour Society annual Spring exhibition,
featuring works in waterbased media on paper.
Bankside Gallery
48 Hopton Street
London, SE1 9JH
Gallery Hours Open daily, 11am - 6pm
Free Admission
For all enquiries please contact info@banksidegallery.com
Paintings currently available at:
Hampstead, London
Bruton, Somerset
CV
E D U C A T I O N
1995-1998
Royal Academy Schools, Post-graduate Diploma in Painting
1992-1995
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Wimbledon School of Art
1992-1993
Sir John Cass School of Art, Foundation course in Art
S E L E C T E D
E X H I B I T I O N S
2025
Society British Artists Annual exhibition, Mall galleries, London
RWS Spring, Bankside gallery
2024
RWS show, Linden Hall Studio, Kent
Royal Society British Artists Open, Mall Galleries
Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery
2023
Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery
THG Open, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
Catto Below - New Floral paintings, Catto Gallery, London
350th Anniversary Chelsea Physic Garden, Bankside Gallery
2022
Royal West of England Academy 169 Open, Bristol
Spring exhibition, Moorwood Fine Art, Bruton
Spring exhibition, Bankside gallery, London
2021
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Changing Seasons, Catto Gallery, London
Chelsea Physic Garden: A Year in the Life, Bankside Gallery, London
2020
Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London
2019
Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London
2018
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London
Primavera - Yew Tree Gallery, Cornwall
Royal Watercolour Contemporary Open, Bankside Gallery
Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, Mall galleries
2017
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Royal Watercolour Contemporary Open, Bankside Gallery
2016
Royal Watercolour Contemporary Open, Bankside Gallery
2015
Rowley Gallery, London
2014
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2011
Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth
2008
RA Graduates South West, Somerville Gallery, Plymouth
2006
Whitespace Gallery, Totnes
2001
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
New English Art Club Open, Mall Galleries, London
1998
Fenton Arts Trust
1997
Cromwell Hospital, London (solo)
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1996
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
A W A R D S / N E W S
2023
Dorchester Hotel, London - prints of paintings commissioned for the newly renovated suites based on the theme of the English Garden
2022
Elected full member of The Royal Watercolour Society
2018
Elected Associate of The Royal Watercolour Society
Shortlisted Lynn Painter Stainers Prize
Shortlisted Sunday Times Watercolour competition
1998 - 1999
Artist in Residence, London Business School
1998
Cyril Sweett Award for an Outstanding Post graduate Show,
Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers,
M&G prize, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1997
Silver Medal for painting, Royal Academy shcools
Creswick prize for landscape painting, RA schools
Leverhulme & Pennycress scholarships
C O L L E C T I O N S
Chevron UK, Cromwell Hospital, Laura Ashley Foundation, London Business School, M&G group, Northwick Park Hospital, Royal Watercolour Society Diploma Collection, Private collections
T E A C H I N G
2018 + Freelance Art tutor
2008-2018 Art tutor for Devon County Council Adult Learning
2010 Certificate to teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CTLLS)