Expat portrait artist Susan Wilson has a style that tends to be polarising... she's not into painting flattering images of her sitters.
People who commission her appreciate her honesty, and know that she won't paint them from a photograph, they have to be prepared to sit for hours, though they are encouraged to chat.
Susan Wilson is currently back in the country to gift a self-portrait of her wearing her father's war medals, to the New Zealand Portrait Gallery.
