Sue Lewington

Sue has worked as an artist and illustrator all her life, mostly based around the West Penwith Peninsula and on the Isles of Scilly. 

She says she was lucky to have a good art school training in draughtsmanship, illustration and painting and has put it to good use ever since. Her inspiration comes from the energy of the landscape, the seas and the skies and the frayed edges of the coastline. 

Sue Lewington teaches bookbinding and painting in and around Cornwall and still visits Scilly frequently. She continues to explore different techniques and uses a range of media depending on her mood and what the piece calls for. She is currently working on loosening up her style and creating more abstract shapes and marks. 

Sue studied at Harrow School of Art in the 1960s and first worked as a freelance illustrator. She moved to West Penwith in Cornwall in 1975, inspired by the wild and rugged land. She augmented her income as an artist by teaching printmaking at Penzance School of Art. 

In 1989 Sue Lewington moved to St Martins on the Isles of Scilly, where she ran her own gallery. Here, she was surrounded by a completely different landscape from that of Cornwall; rocks, sand and sea, in its many moods. In 2006 she returned to live in West Penwith, working from her home studio and exhibiting in many galleries in the South West. Her ink and watercolour sketches of local scenes have great popular appeal and a great number of her journals and sketches have been published in book form and are widely available in bookshops and galleries throughout Cornwall and Devon. She says: 'I want to record the experience of living on the edge of the land, whether in Scilly, Penwith, or the Scottish Isles.'