Sue Bulmer

Sue Bulmer is a Nottinghamshire based artist, originally from the North East, and it was back there when she was a young girl that her inspiration for her prints and illustrations began. Sue's first career started when she graduated from Nottingham University in 1993, where she went on to become a pharmacist, however she always knew that she wanted more, and so she left the sciences to fulfill her real passion of becoming an illustrator and print maker and so she took a foundation course in Art and Design, which she believed was enough to get her into the new career she had always wanted, and from then on she has been self taught.




Although she has lived in Nottingham for 23 years, her love for art began when she was growing up in the North East. Sue lived on a farm with her parents and would often draw or make little sketches of the chickens there, which is when her passion for the natural world began, her motivation was the changing colours and the texture of the seasons. 
    A lot of the pieces that she creates have a lot to do with with her upbringing, her recent ink illustrations express a lot of love which she explains is to do with her being extremely close to her 3 sisters. Also, having lived in a 200 year old cottage filled with vintage finds, she found wealth of material to spark her creativity within her own home.  She felt the comfort of being at home gave her the ability to express the sentimentality in her work, she describes her work as 'down to earth' and the whole reason as to why she draws what she does? Because she loves it! 

As well as doing her beautifully designed illustrations on paper / card, she also transfers them on to textiles, and sometimes uses other media in her work such as watercolor, stitch or different inks. Her mood and current interests dictate her work quite often which makes her pieces quite subjective and fluid. Sue always looks for new idea where ever she goes, may it be to the shops, a quick walk or something rather exciting! She will never be with out a sketchbook in hand to keep up with these heart warming, sweet illustrations.