Sue Biazotti
Brief Biography
Sue Biazotti was born in Glasgow in 1962 and studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art graduating in 1984.
She was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields scholarship in 1985, and took the opportunity to move to London and continue her studies at Byam Shaw School of Art.
She also began to take on private portrait commissions. Her first commission was exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painter’s annual exhibition.
In 1996 they returned to Scotland to live in Glasgow with their two children.
She has exhibited since 1986 with a number of one person shows and exhibitions in London, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Her other awards include a Commendation in the Morrison Scott Portrait Award in 1998 and the Winner of the Aspect Prize in 2005.
Sue has been particularly inspired by the beautiful hebridean island Colonsay where the family has holidayed most summers, and which she remembers visiting as a child. Continuing to paint commissioned portraits, she has also developed her own figurative themes.
Following a long summer watching her young son swimming under water looking for newts in a local outdoor pool, she began to paint a series of figures under water.
This theme was recently continued when the family spent a couple of weeks in the south of France, resulting in the series of her daughter Gabriella in her red bikini.