Selected Exhibitions
Suki Berwick is a painter with South Korean background living and working in the U.K. since 1985. She is currently based in Buckinghamshire, near High Wycombe.
Having studied a Law Degree in her 40’s whilst in full-time employment, a Fine Art Degree followed, she is a firm believer in life-long learning. First, art-making was a way of searching for her own identity and anchoring herself to the ground, whilst coping with various twists and turns in life, later became a great passion and obsession.
Selected Exhibitions
2026 Royal Academy Summer exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2026 Jacksons Art Prize, Finalists exhibition, Bankside Gallery
2025 Rise Henley Festival, short listed – Henley on Thames
No place art Materiality Exhibition, London – September
Gallery Gwen, Summer Exhibition, Aberaeron, South Wales
Ing discerning eye, Mall Gallery, London – November
2021 Sedici Group Exhibition, Stable Gallery, West Meon
Sedici Group Exhibition, Muswell Hill, London
2019 The Oxford Open competition, the Jam Factory, Oxford
2018 Sedici Group Show, IMHO, High Barnet, London
2016 Austmarka Artist Residency, Norway
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Shortlisted
Turps Correspond Group Exhibition, Rye Creative Centre, Rye
2015 Korean Artists Association Annual Show, Korean Cultural Centre, London
2014 Sedici Group Exhibition, London
Korean Chronicles, Korean cultural centre, London
Turps Correspond, Thurlow St, London
2013 E’scape 4persons Show, Bethnal Green, London
Sedici Group Exhibition, Paget Street, London
2012 Sedici Group Exhibition, Petersfield, Hants
2010 Bucks New University Fine Art Degree Show, High Wycombe
2009 Artsmart Exhibition, Beaconsfield, Bucks
2004 Chateau D’idron Group Exhibition, Pau, South France
Artist Statement
Suki Berwick – Artist Statement
My paintings grow from a life shaped by movement between places, disciplines, and states of belonging. I was born and raised in the South Korean countryside, in a remote landscape of mountains, streams, trees, fields, and endless nature. This early sensory encounter with nature still shapes the way I approach colour, rhythm, and atmosphere in my paintings.
I work with oil and acrylic on canvas, building each painting through an intuitive process of layering, covering, scraping, and responding. I am interested in the moment when a painting begins to hold its own internal logic, when shapes, lines, densities, and empty spaces start to create a structure I could not have planned in advance.
My use of colour is deeply connected to the natural world, especially to the many greens I encounter in daily walks through the Chiltern landscape. These greens carry more than visual information. They connect my present surroundings in England with the landscape of my childhood in Korea, bringing together distance, memory, and longing. In this sense, my paintings are not landscapes, but places where different landscapes, times, and emotional states meet.
My journey into art began later in life, after migration, work, motherhood, loss, and years of carrying responsibilities that left little room for my own creative voice. Painting has become a way of recovering that voice. Through abstraction, I search for identity without fixing it into a single story. I am drawn to forms that feel slightly awkward, unstable, or unresolved, because they carry the truth of being between identities, between worlds.. Through colour, texture, movement, and spatial tension, I build images that hold fragments of lived experience without turning them into illustration. I want the paintings to open a space where viewers can sense their own memories, uncertainties, and inner landscapes. For me, painting is a way of making visible the search for meaning through the act of creating itself.