 Sue Macartney-Snape was born in Tanzania, brought up in Australia and now lives and paints in London. John Julius Norwich calls her a "master of caricature" and says her paintings "illustrate the English social scene more brilliantly and with greater accuracy than those of any other painter working today."
For the past 18 years Sue has illustrated The Telegraph Magazine's 'Social Stereotypes' column. Nine books of her original stereotypes have been published since 1994 and hundreds of thousands of copies have been sold.
Sue Macartney-Snape won the 2004 Pont Award for drawing the British Character and has been acclaimed as the 'Wodehouse of Art'.
Sue has had sell out exhibitions with The Sloane Club and has had many commissions, including ones from Glyndebourne, The Metropolitan Opera and Barbara Amiel - wife of Lord Conrad Black.
Sue won the 2004 Pont Award for drawing the British character and has been acclaimed as the Wodehouse of art.
Ned Sherrin wrote in 2004 "Sue Macartney-Snape's observation suggests that she has eyes on stalks". Gyles Brandreth wrote in 2007 "Sue Macartney- Snape belongs to a tradition that runs from William Hogarth to Ronald Searle".
Sue has held several sell-out exhibitions of her work at leading London galleries and the Sloane Club.
Testimonials
John Julius Norwich calls Sue a 'master of caricature' and says her paintings 'illustrate the English social scene more brilliantly and with greater accuracy than those of any other painter working today.'
‘With consummate skill the authors have once again skewered our national smugness.’
Nicky Haslam
‘A dazzling combination…Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape fit together like Fortnum & Mason, and are achingly, achingly funny.’
Jilly Cooper
‘Mather and Macartney-Snape are not so much observers, more collectors, pinning their victims like butterflies in a display cabinet... Very enjoyable.’
Michael Parkinson
’Sue Macartney-Snape's observation suggests that she has eyes on stalks.’
Ned Sherrin
’Sue Macartney-Snape belongs to a tradition that runs from William Hogarth to Ronald Searle.’
Gyles Brandreth
‘With their wicked wit plus a deadly accurate aim, Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape score a direct hit every time.’
Carol Thatcher
‘Hilarious, sparking with mischief, Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape are mistresses of observation.’
Santa Montefiore
‘Opening a volume by Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape always fills me with delicious apprehension. I know that, in no time, I will be chuckling away at the absurdities of someone who is awfully like me. In the last analysis, there is nothing more frightening, or more effective, than humour that is based entirely on razor-sharp truth.’
Julian Fellowes
‘Neither I, The Embarrassing Parent, nor my daughter, The Gap Year Student, can live without Social Stereotypes.’
Emma Soames
‘Another brilliant edition of Social Stereotypes. Every guest loo should have a copy. No adult Christmas stocking should be without one.’
Anne Robinson
‘The sharpest observation since Hogarth… Totally wicked from cover to cover.’
Nicholas Coleridge
‘Like the best bitter chocolate – does your heart good and you always want more. When it comes to Mather and Macartney-Snape, I’m a stereotype: The Totally Hooked.’
Gyles Brandreth
‘Phew! What a relief. Obviously Victoria and Sue are keeping “The Ageing Sports Presenter” up their haute couture sleeves for the moment. Those who are included have once again been drawn and quartered with customary brilliance.’
Desmond Lynam
‘Every cut of the British populace – marinated in a piquant dressing, lightly grilled, and served on a skewer.’
Maggie Alderson
‘For as long as I can remember, Social Stereotypes has been essential reading on a Saturday morning. Victoria Mather’s mischievous prose and Sue Macartney-Snape’s wicked illustrations together reveal the human condition in all its vagaries. I hope I do not one day recognise myself over a Saturday breakfast.’
General Sir Mike Jackson
‘Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape are the top guns amongst London’s social big game hunters. The have an unerring eye for the follies and foibles of us all.’
Max Hastings
‘Modern England is spotlighted, skewered, celebrated and kebabbed by the genius of Mather and Macartney-Snape, the great illuminators of our age.’
Gyles Brandreth |
