ABOUT SUSAN
My father was an amateur painter, so I borrowed his oil paints from the age of 13, he was my greatest influence with his love of the Impressionists and then I discovered Vermeer and Vuillard through my art school-teacher Bernard Dunstan RA. I studied at the Byam Shaw School of Painting in London from 1960 – 64 and was elected a member of the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. I was Vice President of The RP from 2002 to 2008.
Portrait painting is thrilling and totally absorbing but I do find listening and chatting an important part of the process. I particularly like painting my sitters in a setting, be it a lamplit interior, outside with a dog or whatever captures them. I love painting portraits but it was as a landscape painter that I received my first award and my one man shows often feature paintings of interiors.
SUSAN RYDER COMMISSIONS
SUSAN RYDER PRICE GUIDE
Oil
20 x 16 inches £6,500
24 x 20 inches £8,000
30 x 25 inches £10,000
36 x 28 inches £12,000
40 x 30 inches £14,000
50 x 40 inches £17,000
60 x 40 inches £20,500
This is a rough fee-guide for a single portrait. Travel & accommodation expenses included.
Framing cost is separate.
For groups and non-standard sizes please ask for a quote.
METHOD OF WORKING
Three sittings of three hours is plenty for the average sitter and I only need a couple of sittings with lots of breaks for the head of a child and am very happy to travel to my sitters – especially as I often like to paint them in their settings. I enjoy painting groups and love dogs so am happy to include one dog for free. I am not currently registered for VAT.
NOTABLE SITTERS
- H M Queen Elizabeth II
- Diana Princess of Wales for the then Prince of Wales
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Tilda Swinton
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Rory Stewart
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Max Hastings
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Sir Richard and Lady Evans for Wolfson College Cambridge
- Sir Michael Scholar, President, St John’s College Oxford
- Sir Eric Ash, Imperial College
- Sir Malcolm Gillies, City University
- Professor Gregory, Goldsmtihs
- Lord Porter OM
- Lord Dillon
- Robert Erith, High Sherrif of Essex
- Richard Morgan, Headmaster of Radley
- Nicola Paget, Actress
- The Rigby Family
- The Lyon Family
- The Carr Ellison Family
- The Jeffcock Family
- The Deacon Family
- Dame Angela McClean DBE FRS
- Mary Breem, Headmistress of St Mary’s Ascot
EXHIBITIONS
Susan Ryder Solo Shows:
- 2020 Panter & Hall
- 2016 Panter & Hall
- 2013 Panter & Hall
- 2010 Ackerman Modern, Antarctica to China
- 2009 Ackerman Modern, Interiors and Portraits
- 2004 Oakham Gallery
- 1999, 1995, 1990 W H Patterson
Mixed Exhibitions
- Manya Igel
- New English Art Club
- Royal Academy
- Sarah Samuels
- Geedon
- Brian Sinfield
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Chris Beetles
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Panter & Hall