archive | 2004-2021
You wait, and …
From The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd, oil, casein paint and graphite on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, 2020
Soon the birds forget you
Artist book: text from The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd, oil, resist and metallic paper on paper, 20 x 18 cm, 2020
Ouverture
By Guillevic, casein paint and silverpoint on wood, 18.5 x 14.5 cm, 2020, private commission
Stacks II
Oil and resist on upcycled 19th-century vellum document, on wood, 24 x 17 cm, 2019
A city built on precipices
Artist book: title from G K Chesterton 1905; star concertina, oil and resist on board, 17 x 9 cm, 2019, private collection
At the point of fluctuation
From The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd; silverpoint on wood, 20 x 20 cm, 2018, private collection
Motion in water
Title from The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd; oil on canvas, 70 x 55 cm, 2018
Autumn Wind
Text from ‘The Autumn Wind’ by Han Wudi, translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley; oil, casein paint and graphite on canvas, 180 x 160 cm, 2017
Clothed in air
From The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd; oil and casein paint on wood, 23 x 20 cm, 2017, private collection
How the earth must see itself
Title from The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd; oil, casein paint and resist on canvas, 155 x 140 cm, 2016
Three hangings
Ink and resist on Chinese paper, 200 x 52 cm, 2016
Loch
From ‘Bheinn Naomh’ by Kathleen Raine, graphite and ink on Chinese paper, 45 x 30 cm, 2015
Hill of the rowan
Oil on wood H 34 cm, W 30 cm, 2015
Hill of the stonemason
Ink, indigo and oil on Chinese paper H 18 cm, W 16 cm, 2014
Sublime
From ‘The Living Mountain’ by Nan Shepherd Oil and graphite on wood H 30 cm, W 20 cm, 2014
Dubh Loch
Oil and plaka on wood H 30 cm, W 30 cm, 2013
Spit in the wind
Oil on Chinese paper H 19 cm, W 22 cm, 2013
A sense sublime
From ‘Tintern Abbey’ by William Wordsworth Oil, plaka and ink on wood H 66 cm, W 67 cm, 2012
The homeless voice of waters
Response to ‘The Prelude, Conclusion’ by William Wordsworth Oil and plaka on wood H 60 cm, W 61 cm, 2012
Shadows
From ‘In Memoriam CXXIII’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson Oil, plaka and graphite on wood H 100 cm, W 110 cm, 2011
Compelling impulse
Text from ‘On High Hills’ by Geoffrey Winthrop Young Oil and plaka on canvas H 200 cm, W 220 cm, 2011
Letters Patent for Life Peerage, detail
Under direction of Donald Jackson, Senior Illuminator to the Crown Office: heading and writing by Susie Leiper Gouache, ink and shell gold on vellum prepared by Sarah Harris, 2010
Adoration of the trees
Excerpts from four poems by Kathleen Raine Japanese bronze on plum wood, 2010
World
From ‘Northumbrian Sequence’ by Kathleen Raine Japanese bronze on wych elm Exhibited at the Wych Elm Project, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2009
Noctambulism
Text from The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane, Granta books, 2007 Gouache on card H 24.5 cm, W 12.5 cm, 2009 Collection National Library of Scotland
Charter for Middle and Inner Temple, London, detail
Charter for Middle and Inner Temple, London, detail Supplementary translation into English of Latin patent of 1608, to mark 400th anniversary Under direction of Donald Jackson, Senior Illuminator to the Crown Office: detail of text writing by Susie Leiper Japanese stick ink in quill on vellum, 2008 © Scriptorium
Leven Cut bridge, section
Words by Michael Hamish Glen, lettering designed by Susie Leiper, carved by Roger Hall Commission from TRACKS for Loch Leven Heritage Trail, Kinross-shire, Scotland, 2008
Queen Mother’s Memorial Fund Book
Book designed, written and decorated by Susie Leiper, bound by Laura West, Isle of Skye Bindery Title page: watercolour and Japanese bronze on paper H 30 cm, W 33 cm, 2007 Commission from Queen Mother’s Memorial Fund for Scotland
Strata
Ink on Chinese paper H 40 cm, W 40 cm, 2007
Beinn Airidh Charr
By Kenneth White Ink marbling, colours and pencil on Chinese paper H 170 cm, W 60 cm, 2006
Rock
Excerpts from ‘Rock’ by Kathleen Raine Japanese-style sewn book: indigo and ink on Chinese paper H 19 cm, W 19 cm, 2006
I to the hills will lift mine eyes
Psalm 121, opening lines Gold, watercolour and gouache on Somerset paper H 11 cm, W 22 cm, 2005
These great cathedrals of the earth
From Modern Painters, vol IV, ‘Of Mountain Beauty’ by John Ruskin, 1856 Chinese colours, graphite, walnut ink and gold on Chinese paper 2005
The Saint John’s Bible: Valley of Dry Bones
Ezekiel 36 and 37 Illumination by Donald Jackson, Artistic Director, text writing by Susie Leiper Chinese stick ink in quill on vellum, 2004 © Saint John’s University, MN, USA © NRSV
The Saint John’s Bible: Wisdom 7:26, special treatment
Special treatment by Susie Leiper, in margin of Sirach 35, text written by Sally Mae Joseph Ink and gouache on platinum leaf, on vellum, 2004 © Saint John’s University, MN, USA © NRVS
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