CONTACT susanjunerobertson@gmail.com
instagram@susanjuneart
some stuff about me ?
happily married longer than I have not been to a man who does not like me taking pictures of him
3 children that I have never successfully done portraits of
multiple cats 3 at a time
BSc MD FRCPc (81) BA 2007 BFA 2023
my ever present headphones playing my daughter’s music(broken down golfcart) while I try to walk fast when I am not in the woods
stuff I have given up
my bicycle and I collecting dirt for soil chromatography
my famous red raincoat
Current Obsessions
Painting has paused while I transition away from acrylics. I intend to start watercolour, soy based and egg tempera with my own foraged pigments. I am leaving my past pieces here… not sure why. For now The Science and Bioart Section includes some soil chromatography, alternative photography including abstracted botanical photograms, and embroidery with botanical pigmented threads
Summer Shows 2025 are
Ottawa: Art in the Park June 7-8
Carleton Place: May 2-4
I am only taking Alternative Photography Pieces
Below for examples
All pieces even if not shown below are matted and framed with glass.
There are two categories Botanical Photograms and Lens based Alternate photography
(predominantly but not exclusively cyanotype prints)
I will not be showing soil chromatography but if you want one done of your own special place I will do one for you.
Photograms:
My photograms are botanical and reflect the essence of a specific place, the visual, the feeling, the smell, the memories. I use the plants and sometimes botanical pigments from foraged plants combined with cyanotype, solarfast, dry pigments and light. They are of places I visit and walk through frequently, in some cases for many years and I can see the changes, not just by season but by year. Changes that are sometimes sad. For me they are of a specific place although with an element of abstraction I hope to remove the specific to enable a connection in the viewer to similar places and thus their own connections with nature.
Photograph based:
I collect photographs not just foraged botanicals as I hike. I process these from digital to prints using alternative photographic methods that are sustainable and possible for me in kitchen or small studio. Currently I am mostly using cyanotype +/- solarfast butI am constantly exploring methods. In contrast to photograms these are more clearly representational as I want (need) a more clear communication. Some of these are about the spaces/ ideas/ events that intersect between human and the rest of nature. I have my own interpretations/ emotions attached to these which an observer may see differently (and that is expected and OK). Other pieces just reflect the sheer beauty of the small intimate places I see that are delicate or and fragile or persistent and strong. Yet other pieces are a collection of invasive species that are both dangerous yet beautiful in their own way and sometimes functional. How is an invasive species defined… and humans their role and their inclusion (for me this includes an overly with my first group and I leave decisions on the groupings to the reader.
