About Sue

Sue Bishop is a photographer whose aim is to create an image that goes beyond a mere record of its subject and becomes art. Her compositions are a celebration of colour and form, often going beyond reality so that they become impressionistic and even abstract.

Sue has exhibited her work many times, and held a major solo exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley Library in London in Spring 2004. As well as selling prints to clients in the UK, Europe, America and Australia, she has contributed photographs and articles to photographic magazines and has sold work for use in travel brochures and books. Her range of photographic greetings cards was shortlisted for the Henries Awards in 2000, and in the same year her photograph of a wildflower meadow in Andalucia was highly commended in the prestigious BG Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition. In Summer 2004 she was commissioned to photograph flowers and fruits for a new range of bath and beauty products for Marks & Spencers.  In Spring 2008 one of Sue’s photographs was Commended in the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition.

Flower photography is a particular passion, and Sue has written a book on the subject, "Photographing Flowers", which was published in Spring 2004 (ISBN 1-86108-366-1).  Her new book, "Digital Flower Photography", will be available in Autumn 2008.

In 1994 Sue founded Light & Land, a company which runs photographic tours to destinations all over the world. This is now the most successful company of its kind in the UK.

"Through Sue's images, we find ourselves swept away into colourful, abstract worlds.  In many of her images, the flower has been used as a metaphor to take us beyond literal understanding, to find new meanings - to become entranced." - Charlie Waite

“Unashamedly romantic and beautiful, Sue Bishop’s photographs describe an idealised world, a distant sanctuary from the daily grind of modern life. A painterly sense of light and colour and subtle compositions of striking simplicity elevate these images way beyond the usual clichés of travel photography into a personal art form.” – Joe Cornish

All the images on this website are available as hand prints on watercolour paper. Please click on the Fine Art Prints tab for details.

COPYRIGHT: The photographs on this website may not be reproduced, copied, projected, electronically scanned or used in any other way without the express permission of Sue Bishop and prior agreement on terms of use, rights granted and reproduction fees.