Susan Ryder - Reflected Light

Exhibition E-Catalogue

Sue’s interiors are visual feasts. Her delicate brush strokes bring every surface to life in these deliberately opulent settings - capturing the play of light from lamps or open fires, and how that light transforms the colours of furnishings and walls. From the warm red-orange glow of an evening fireside to the cooler morning sunlight brightening a hallway, her paintings depict happy, inviting places.

If her expert manipulation of light and colour convey this mood so successfully it is her clever compositional arrangements that add narrative. Sue’s paintings are suffused with evidence of life and activity: an open door, a hastily discarded coat, a recently abandoned card game all ask questions. Each room is left with the imprint of humanity, the shadow of an event enjoyed, a room to be returned to. Sue’s rooms and gardens are never empty, rather filled with the echoes of good company and humour, so that each setting develops a character its own.

Perhaps what comes across most in her work is the evident pleasure Sue takes in painting them. The luxuriant fabrics, the patina on a centuries old table, are all lovingly recorded in paint while the distinctive lack of figures may be her greatest indulgence. One of the country’s leading portrait painters has found solace by freeing herself from the tyranny of a central character. After a lifetime studying people, figures and faces there is no wonder she enjoys the tranquillity of an unpopulated room. © Panter & Hall 2013

11 September - 28 September 2013

Panter & Hall
11-12 Pall Mall
London
SW1Y 5LU

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Monday to Friday

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Saturdays

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Sundays

CLOSED

CLOSED BANK HOLIDAYS

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

The Desk Chair

oil on canvas

22 x 30 ins (56 x 76 cms)

£4,200

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Dusk Reflections

oil on canvas

25 x 40 ins (64 x 102 cms)

£7,000

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Lamplight and Fireplace

oil on canvas

18 x 18 ins (46 x 46 cms)

£2,300

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Rhubarb Table with Red Rose

oil on canvas

32 x 20 ins (81 x 51 cms)

£4,800

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Drawing Room, Early Evening

oil on canvas

16 x 22 ins (41 x 56 cms)

£2,850

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Lamplight and Roses

oil on canvas

28 x 28 ins (71 x 71 cms)

£5,700

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Woodland Stream

oil on canvas

14 x 12 ins (36 x 30 cms)

£1,300

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

The Gilded Lamp

oil on canvas

16 x 10 ins (41 x 25 cms)

£1,450

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Oak Room Doorway

oil on canvas

14 x 20 ins (36 x 51 cms)

£2,300

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

River Till, Springtime

oil on canvas

36 x 52 ins (91 x 132 cms)

£11,000

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

The Fireplace Table

oil on canvas

18 x 18 ins (46 x 46 cms)

£2,500

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Early Evening, Le Mairy

oil on canvas

32 x 20 ins (81 x 51 cms)

£5,200

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Waterlilies

oil on canvas

12 x 18 ins (30 x 46 cms)

£1,800

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

After the Party

oil on canvas

36 x 42 ins (91 x 107 cms)

£4,800

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Hallway Chair, Le Beuvriere

oil on canvas

26 x 24 ins (66 x 61 cms)

£4,800

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

River Terrig

oil on canvas

26 x 16 ins (66 x 41 cms)

£3,200

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

River Till, Winter

oil on canvas

10 x 16 ins (25 x 41 cms)

£1,300

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Firelight, Le Mairy

oil on canvas

28 x 36 ins (71 x 91 cms)

£2,800

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Coffee and Strawberries, Le Mairy

oil on canvas

20 x 20 ins (51 x 51 cms)

£2,800

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Ballroom Window

oil on canvas

24 x 14 ins (61 x 36 cms)

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Loire, Early Morning

oil on canvas

22 x 36 ins (56 x 91 cms)

£5,600

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Blue Poppies

oil on canvas

14 x 12 ins (36 x 30 cms)

£1,300

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

The Coffee Tray

oil on canvas

20 x 10 ins (51 x 25 cms)

£1,700

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Susan Ryder RP NEAC

Sideboard with Blue Jug

oil on canvas

20 x 36 ins (51 x 91 cms)

£5,800

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