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Name | Susan Bell |
Preferred public name | Susan Bell |
Bio | Susan created her first book; Mr. Smith’s Antics, when she was still in primary school. In Secondary school her illustrations were spread on the cover of the school magazine. At 14, Susan sold her first painting, fell in love at 16, bumped his car into a tractor at 17, but when she won a truck, her parents agreed she could attend art school. Susan married in January, then set off in February to study Visual Art−Graphic Communication at Chisholm Institute, Caulfield. Susan’s emu poster illustration was the face of the Australian stand in London and Frankfurt Book Fairs, for the National Book Council. After many years as an artist, wife, mother, art tutor and photographer, business partner, gum tree planter and property investor, Susan returned to study a Diploma of Professional Writing & Editing, and also updated her skills with Computer Illustration studies in a Diploma of Illustration at Chisholm Frankston. Prior Columnist for the Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne and Editor for Peninsula Arts Society. Happy winner of the C J Dennis Literary Award 2006 for Short Fiction and many art awards including the Sir Arthur Streeton Award for Australian Landscape and the Von Guerard Award for Landscape |
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Why Do You Write? | I have returned to writing my Historical Art novel after many years of interruptions. This time I will finish it. |
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What are you currently working on? | A novel following the life journey of an Artist.'Her hand pushed the line through dips and round shadows. Black breast and black wings she caressed with her pen. Gently filling the bird's body with life. A white blaze around my neck, he whispered. And eight white feathers on each wing. He led her pen through each line on each feather. Vanity takes time. She was patient today.' |
What are your long term goals? | Finish |
What is your writing regime? | Writing daily and illustrating as story progresses |