STATEMENT

Colours speak to our souls in a language that transcends words, evoking a primal response that is deeply ingrained in our very being. A single hue or a symphony of shades has the power to unlock hidden memories, stir up forgotten emotions and bathe us in an overwhelming sense of joy, comfort and connection. Sue’s work is about inspiration, hope and the capacity to move beyond the scars and the pain. To find beauty within the dark. Beauty helps our souls find a moment of respite, a gentle reminder to breathe deeply and let tranquility wash over you. She sets out to decipher and reconcile the intangible elements of nature that make a moment both fleeting and enduring. Raw expressive brush-works echo the organic forms and colours of nature and along with a complexity of mark making, Sue explores the duality of beauty and loss. Along with the fleeting and fragile conditions of life. It’s a world built upon dramatic abstraction in a contemporary expressive approach to the canvas.

The freedom of the work is both a challenge and the motivation to create something new and unique. She finds working more abstractly more engaging - experimenting, exploring and trying out materials, colours and composition. Also the changes in her body from the illnesses have made her change her artistic practice, so now she paints with her non dominant hand, with large brushes and for just a limited time.

Sue works in series of paintings exploring different palettes and working at depth in a variety of nature based abstractions. She paints how it feels to be in the natural environment, both it’s strength and softness. Years of of working on nature conservation projects worldwide, has given her a tremendous storehouse of referential images with which to inspire her art. Gestural marks, lines, shapes are all used to evoke joy among the passionate delights of colour. Each painting is an anchor of positivity, inspiring hope and resilience.

In the artwork are complex layers of colours, deep splatters, swift brushstrokes and drawn shapes that coalesce to create a layered visual narrative. The viewer engages in what feels like an excavation of the emotional and expressive history within the pieces. The observer becomes an active participant, unraveling the intricate layers and developing a personal interpretation of the artworks. This can result is a desire to change the orientation of the paintings, swing them around top to bottom, side to side which is why the paintings are signed on the side and back. They can be hung whichever way feels best to you, changing vertical to horizontal or vice versa.