Susan Horsfield

Susan Margaret Horsfield, later Susan Platts (born 1928, died 2024) is a British painter and former art teacher who works in a variety of media.

Biography Horsfield was born in India in 1928 and graduated in Fine Art from the School of Art at Regent Street Polytechnic in central London in 1952 where she was taught by Patrick Millard and Norman Blamey.

She married Mr Shelley Platts in August 1952 at Felpham, near Bognor Regis and has four children. She was head of the art department at Farrington's School Chislehurst, London from 1969 to 1986, also lecturing in further education and at field study centres. The group also included Valerie Thornton, Renate Meyer, Michael Lewis, Ken Symonds, Philip Le Bas and Peter Riches.

Solo exhibitions 1956 – Walker Galleries, London 2003 – Old Fire Engine House, Ely, Cambridgeshire

Group exhibitions 1957 – Royal Institute, Royal Institute Galleries, London 1957 – Women's International Art Club, Whitechapel Gallery, London 1959 – Walker Galleries, London (with Valerie Thornton, Thelma Carstensen, Edwin Mortlock and Anthony Day) 1959 – Association of Sussex Artists, Horsham Town Hall, Sussex 1960 & 1961 – Women's International Art Club, RBA Galleries, London 1962 – Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford (with Sannie Drew and Valerie Thornton) 1969 – Women's International Art Club, Morley College Gallery, London

Galleries Nuffield Foundation Kings College, Cambridge