Su Fishpool

Photo of Su Fishpool, artist and Peninsula Arts tutor

Su is a highly qualified tutor with many years of experience teaching art both to children and adults. Through demonstrations Su teaches a rich variety of drawing and painting techniques, media and colour study.

Su currently teaches an adult class titled ‘Explorations in Mixed Media’ at Peninsula Arts, where students learn a range of art media and techniques to create work that references a variety of subject matter and genres.

Art Philosophy

Ever changing tapestry of natures’ colours, texture and juxtaposed spaces is a source of constant inspiration. It is the interaction of design elements and atmosphere which holds a fascination that can lead you to another realm. Although nature is sometimes depicted in a recognizable fashion, it is often preferable for me to use it as only a beginning for a picture.

Colour and textures, for instance, can be the most exciting aspects of a place. The actual appearance in photographic terms could hold little excitement. Pieces can float or unite. Some belong together, some do not, like a jostling crowd working out their preferences. In the relinquishing of learned controls and responses, we open ourselves to levels of communication of a deeper order, and increase our awareness of life’s co-existences – with endless possibilities as an outward moving spiral.

Qualifications and experience

1971 – Diploma of Art and Design, Caulfield Institute of Technology

1972 – Employed as Graphic Designer

1973 – Diploma of Education, Hawthorn State College

1973 – 1986 – Teaching secondary art in Victorian Schools

1986 – 1989 – Employed as Art Coordinator, Mentone Grammar.

1994 – 2019 Teaching regular, private, children’s art classes at Peninsula Arts Society in Frankston South, Mt Martha House, Mt Martha and at Mornington, UCA