Sue Gardner believes colour plays a mysterious and vital part in our lives. She creates big, bold, colourful canvases that will make a huge impact on any home, adding joy to the everyday. As a synaesthete, Sue 'sees' colour in letters and numbers, words, and names, she also 'hears' colour in music. This has a great influence on her sense of colour and the use of it in her work.
Sue's main driving force in life has always been a love of animals, as such they are her natural painting subject. She also takes inspiration from the beautiful National Forest in which she resides.
Sue has a rare condition called Sarcoidosis, which is an ongoing battle with sight loss. However, Sue feels she owes a certain debt to this, as it was being ill that initially led her to begin painting seriously ten years ago. Sue now has impaired vision but she says:
"I can still see well enough to enjoy painting, I simply paint on bigger canvases."