Flo Snook
East Sussex-based artist Flo Snook creates coastal landscapes with the hush and pull of the sea running through them. Her works feel reflective without becoming still, holding a quiet sense of movement through their marks, surfaces, and restraint. Working across drawing, silkscreen, embroidery, and paint, Flo builds each piece as part of a larger process of recovery. The result is work that feels deeply personal, but never closed off.
Ice Cream at Newborough Beach
Yellow Fishing Boat, Porthleven
Yellow Boat At Porthleven Harbour
From the Atelier Collection
- Flo Snook
Flo Snook is a coastal landscape artist based near Brighton, East Sussex, whose creative journey has become deeply connected to the sea and her personal path of recovery. Since undergoing brain surgery to remove a tumour in 2023, Flo has found the world dizzying and overwhelming, but through spending time drawing and sketching by the coast, she has been able to find a sense of balance again. Each painting illustrates a step on her journey of recovery. Her work is an ongoing exploration of healing and the quiet strength found in returning to the natural world.
Flo Snook’s process is rooted in direct engagement with the coastal landscapes around her. Her work begins with pen drawings made in her sketchbook, capturing the shapes, movement, and atmosphere of the sea and shoreline. These drawings become both a record of place and an emotional source, allowing her to translate moments of calm and reflection into finished artworks.
Working across different mediums, Flo transforms her monochromatic drawings into pieces that combine delicate detail with expressive pops of colour. She uses silk screen and hand embroidery to create her textile works, and acrylic paint on wood panel to create her paintings. Each piece carries a sense of movement and stillness, offering a visual experience that feels personal and quietly immersive.
The result is sensitive yet grounded works that are shaped by the coastal world and charged with the artist’s own journey of recovery and resilience.
“As an island nation, it’s no wonder that the sea means so much to us, from day trips to childhood holidays, it’s where important memories are often formed. The sea for me is like a moody friend I can turn to in all weathers and difficult times of life. Having lived most of my life along the coast I have cultivated a deep connection to it’s harbours, piers, fishing cottages and boats, which I like to capture in my work.”
Low Tide at Lynmouth Harbour, Devon
Hove Beach Huts No.4
St Ives View from the TATE
Red Phone Box at Batson, Salcombe
Fishing Boats at Worthing Seafront
Salcombe Yacht Club with Yawls
Yellow Fishing Boat, Porthleven
Yellow Boat at Porthleven Harbour
Ice Cream at Newborough Beach
Cottage at Cuckmere Haven