Susan Dorothea White Bibliography

Interest in Bushland

In a second Festival offering the Off the Beaten Track Gallery, Norwood, presents two exhibitions by young painters Susan White and Adrianus Vanderbyl.

Both find subject matter in the characteristic growth and bushland of Australia, yet the limited approach of each is a world apart.

Although Susan White was born in SA and trained at the SA School of Art before attending the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, this is her first Adelaide exhibition.

Her strength is in draftsmanship and sensitive observation of trees and their branching. She discovers lyrical grace in twisting limbs, as in Bush Moot, View of the Lane Cove River, Broken Branch.

Sometimes this romantic treatment goes over the edge into a rather sickly sentimentalism and one is very conscious of fuzziness and lack of solidity when she essays a large landscape.