All images copyright Sue Kalab - BirdSong Studio

My art is a philosophy, a compulsion that can’t be denied.  it's a gift, a calling. 

​It is the art of beauty found in Australian Nature, and I make art for people who like to be comfortable, art that doesn’t shout for attention - just like our natural world. 

I call my paintings experiential and knowledge-based, not just in what I paint, but how it gathers.  My work belongs in this time, yesterday, today and tomorrow, in this particular context of our world history.  Its style is traditional but its context contemporary.  My volunteer conservation advocacy works well with my art.  

​After all these years I find myself still seeking the mystery of Life, Nature and our Place on Earth.  I seek the beauty, the indescribable, the  ineffable.  This is what I do as an artist.

​"On another note, Emeritus Dean Stewart MacPherson places Sue’s art in the company of Henry David Thoreau and the "showings" (or revelations) of Julian of Norwich, and that Sue’s art "captures the essence of the glory of nature … its mystery and meaning, beauty and truth.    To see, to truly see, the infinite in the “ordinary” is a great gift.  Artists like Sue bless us by sharing that gift with us."  

Sue has 24 solo exhibitions to her credit. She enjoyed continued success in 2018 exhibiting with the relatively new Collie Art Gallery.
​She is seeking a new gallery.

"To own a Sue Kalab creation is to have a treasured possession for life."  ​ Gillian Peebles
​(Accredited Judge with the Royal Academy of Arts, London).

Sue is a calligraphy artist, take a glance at - GALLERY OF CALLIGRAPHY.  She is also  a portraitist and pet animal painter, see GALLERY OF PORTRAITS

Visit Sue's Art Journal, her BLOG where she chats about her work.


​

​​