Statement

Su Cloud trained in Textiles at West Sussex College of Art and Design. For twelve years she lectured in Adult Education Centres in West Sussex and Hampshire, teaching stencilling and paint finishes. As well as being a higher level teaching assistant, employed in a primary school and specializing in Art, she is also a community artist, working with Chichester Festival Theatre and Chichester Festivities.


Nature is the overriding inspiration for her work: fir cones, ammonites, poppy heads, pebbles, gourds; their beauty excites her, generating her ideas. After observing these natural forms and sketching them to capture their shapes and patterns, Su is then able to add her own vision, to strive to recreate in clay what she sees in nature and, in the process, to also discover the ways in which her raw material can become a new, unique object, an expression of her nature.