“Susie David explores water in its many forms with an enthusiasm that is as infectious as the work is captivating. Her work draws creative energy through accepting and embracing tension and uncertainty and through surrender to processes beyond her control.

In many ways David's work is a collaborative endeavour between herself and water, allowing the steam or the tides, falling rain or still waters to shape and respond to the ink she pours into it, the paper she leaves under it, the lens she points towards it. The work is as delightfully unrestrained by form as her subject matter is by use…There is a continual sense that water, frequently domesticated and controlled, is - like life - ultimately unknowable and un-containable…

While delighting in and affirming life through interaction with water, its metaphors and its poetry, the threat of the unknown and that which can never be controlled is a constant presence in David's work – an intriguing and at times intimidating unknown just beneath the surface.”

Darren Harvey-Regan

“ I delight in water's liquid poetics and its wild philosophies.
Though I swim year round, when its warm enough I snorkel and make underwater films. At other times I observe and interact with water near the shore, and in the studio I explore - more contemplatively - water’s fluid dynamics and teachings.
In these encounters and studies I may use a variety of implements, materials and processes giving rise to a variety of art works that take the form of: paintings, drawings, sculpture, films, writings, and poetry - all as homage to water, and in to celebrate and convey the spirit of water.
I find it fascinating that Eastern philosophies frequently use water as metaphor, and as such along with water, they also help inform my practice and resonate within my works - both philosophically and aesthetically. ”
Susie David

Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles
and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?

Tao Te Ching. Lao Tzu

“Susie David explores water in its many forms with an enthusiasm that is as infectious as the work is captivating. Her work draws creative energy through accepting and embracing tension and uncertainty and through surrender to processes beyond her control.

​While delighting in and affirming life through interaction with water, its metaphors and its poetry, the threat of the unknown and that which can never be controlled is a constant presence in David's work – an intriguing and at times intimidating unknown just beneath the surface.”

Darren Harvey-Regan

“ I delight in water's liquid poetics and its wild philosophies.

Though I swim year round, when its warm enough I snorkel and make underwater films. At other times I observe and interact with water near the shore, and in the studio I explore - more contemplatively - water’s fluid dynamics and teachings.

In these encounters and studies I may use a variety of implements, materials and processes giving rise to a variety of art works that take the form of: paintings, drawings, sculpture, films, writings, and poetry - all as homage to water, and in to celebrate and convey the spirit of water.

I find it fascinating that Eastern philosophies frequently use water as metaphor, and as such along with water, they also help inform my practice and resonate within my works - both philosophically and aesthetically. ”

Susie David

While delighting in and affirming life through interaction with water, its metaphors and its poetry, the threat of the unknown and that which can never be controlled is a constant presence in David's work – an intriguing and at times intimidating unknown just beneath the surface.”