Leo du Feu, Dorothea Reid, Susan Smith

About

First cousins Dorothea Reid and Susan Smith grew up in and on the outskirts of Peterhead onScotland’s North-East coast. Both went on to study art, Susan completing her MFA in Fine Art atEdinburgh College of Art in the 1970’s, Dorothea her BA Ceramics & Glass and MA Art & DesignCeramics at Bucks New University in the early 2000’s. Susan’s son Leo du Feu followed in hismum’s footsteps attending Edinburgh College and completing his BA Honours Drawing andPainting degree in 2006.

Around the time Leo was finishing at ECA the three relatives - cousins, mother, son - met up againon gallery visits to London and in Buckinghamshire where Dorothea now lives near a magicalancient woodland called Burnham Beeches. As they explored the woods they sketched and talkedand decided they one day must exhibit their work together. A decade and a half later, their November 2023 exhibition in The Life Room on Dundas Street is the result of this.

All three artists are inspired by natural things. By place, landscape, trees, plants and creatures. Byhistory, people, culture. Dorothea is a ceramicist and a printmaker. Susan is a painter, a linocutprintmaker and a tapestry weaver. Leo is a painter and sketcher-by-train with a love for miniatureand discovered worlds.

They look forward to welcoming you to their exhibition.