Susannah Bond 'Soft Pink Morning' flora lower left: John Olsen 08

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Susannah Bond 'Soft Pink Morning' flora lower left: John Olsen 08Susannah Bond is a Melbourne based artist who is best known for her textural still life paintings. With a practice inspired by 20th Century French painters Nicolas de Stael and Bernard Cathelin, Bond uses oil paint and cold wax to create vibrantly coloured and harmoniously layered scenes. Bond often evokes a sense of nostalgia through her composed moments of still observation. In her 2025 oil painting Soft Pink Morning, Bond creates a classic still