Susannah Fiennes
PRESS
Private Passions
BBC Radio 3
Michael Berkeley
February 2000
Royal Paintbox
Foxtrot Films 2013
A Margy Kinmouth Film
Shot in the spectacular landscapes of Balmoral, Birkhall, Highgrove, Windsor Castle, Frogmore and Osborne House, “ROYAL PAINTBOX” features artworks by members of the Royal Family down the centuries including some of HRH The Prince of Wales’ own watercolours and with contributions from Susannah Fiennes, Lady Antonia Fraser, Jane Roberts…
Stations of the Cross
Exhibition for Holy Week – The Tablet
31st March 2012
An original exhibition during Lent in a Welsh country church of the 14 Stations of the Cross each created by a different artist is drawing visitors from far and wide….
Sir Martin Jacomb
Bicester Review
11 October 2011
Susannah’s portrait of Sir Martin Jacomb, former chancellor of the University of Buckingham, was unveiled to a host of VIPs, friends of the university and staff.
Artists on Art
The Daily Telegraph 16th June 2001
Journalist Martin Gayford
Susannah Fiennes on Chardin’s The Young Draughtsman (1737)
There are many ways to get to know a painting, but perhaps the very best way is to attempt to reproduce it – which is how the painter Susannah Fiennes…
I’ve been Framed
Simon Heffer – The Daily Mail
3rd May 2001
Journalist Simon Heffer
To be honest, I am not really the sort of chap who hankers after having his portrait painted. No doubt, I have a duty to posterity – though I hope my descendants will have better taste than to want pictures of me hanging in their houses. But I cannot escape the feeling that there is something uncomfortably self-regarding about being immortalised on canvas. Ironically, though, it seems to have become a habit.
The Prince and the Paintbrush
The Daily Telegraph
9th October 1999
Journalist Susan Marling
For Susannah Fiennes, travel is about looking harder. it is about being ravished by the moving geometry of bicycles in Shanghai, the “scaffolding and floaty bits” of tango dancers locked together in a club in Buenos Aires, the serenity of a still, blue-robed figure in the hazy warmth of Oman.
The Prince of Palettes
BBC Radio
12th November 1998
Susannah is interviewed about accompanying Prince Charles on royal tours as an artist.
The Prince’s Travelling Painter
The Daily Telegraph
24th June 1998
Journalist Martin Gayford
Artist Susannah Fiennes, who recorded the Hong Kong handover, proves that Royal patronage is alive and well, says Martin Gayford
The Prince and the Painter
The Daily Telegraph
18 June 1997
Journalist Elizabeth Grice
Susannah Fiennes says she has read somewhere that the Prince of Wales likes his artist to look like artists. She certainly hopes so because he has invited her to travel with him to Hong Kong on the Royal Yacht Britannia for the handover ceremony, and she isn’t used to dressing up
Travels with the Prince
Oman 1995
Susannah with HRH the Prince of Wales, painting in Oman, 1995. Catalogue extract briefly refers to Susannah, but article is about his travelling artists in general, including Emma Sergeant.
Chinese Characters
Hong Kong Tatler
Hong Kong, July 1994
Journalist Jane Norrie
The book Wild Swans illustrated the turbulent lives of three women in China – and inspired another woman to go there and paint some wonderful pictures. Jane Norrie reports.
Rising Star
The Evening Standard
17 June 1994
Journalist Daniel Soave
When painter Susannah Fiennes first picked up Jung Chang’s internationally acclaimed novel Wild Swans, she little realised the effect it was to have on her. Inspired by its vivid evocations of China’s past and people, she won the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Travel Award last year and set off to portray the Chinese exactly as she found them.