For commissions, feel free to contact me via social media or email:
Email: hello@susannahgarden.comIG: susannah_garden
About me:
I’m an illustrator and visual artist who creates bold, character-led images with a strong focus on composition, narrative and atmosphere. My work is characterised by graphic shapes, limited colour palettes and layered textures. Sketching, research and playful experimentation are also central to my process.
My skills span editorial and children’s illustration, publishing, posters, visual storytelling and large-scale murals. I work across analogue and digital techniques, including drawing, gouache, collage, paper cutting and stencils, often combining different approaches to find the right visual solution for each project.
Originally from Australia, I studied Creative Arts, majoring in film, at the University of Melbourne. This background informs the way I now think about framing, visual rhythm, narrative and the relationship between characters and their surroundings. From 2007 - 2018 I lived in Russia, and moved into Communication Design. I received a second degree (BA Illustration) at the British Higher School of Art and Design, before relocating to Berlin, Germany in 2018.
Selected client list:
St. John's Schoolhouse, STAUB, Hotel Die Fabrik, Uber Jump, Mevach Press, the Local Food Project, Cinzano, Channel One, Chyornyi Coffee Cooperative, Yandex and Grand Hyatt Sanya.
St. John's Schoolhouse, STAUB, Hotel Die Fabrik, Uber Jump, Mevach Press, the Local Food Project, Cinzano, Channel One, Chyornyi Coffee Cooperative, Yandex and Grand Hyatt Sanya.
Educational projects:
From 2015 - 2018 I lectured in Communication Design at the British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow, including developing my own course in Critical Theory for Illustrators.
I currently develop and run creative workshops for the online illustration school Prostaya Shkola (Simple School) and I am one of the founders and organisers of Sunday Sketching Berlin, ollaborative, themed sketching sessions held in interesting locations around Berlin
From 2015 - 2018 I lectured in Communication Design at the British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow, including developing my own course in Critical Theory for Illustrators.
I currently develop and run creative workshops for the online illustration school Prostaya Shkola (Simple School) and I am one of the founders and organisers of Sunday Sketching Berlin, ollaborative, themed sketching sessions held in interesting locations around Berlin