- About the artist:
- Sue’s current body of work is entitled “Paintings to Touch”
and focuses on creating textures on the papers surface with
several different media. One of my goals in painting is to create
a surface you not only enjoy visually, but also want to touch.
When I show my work I have pieces of paintings available for
clients to feel. Some texture is created with pure paint and
some with collage, the fun is not being able to tell which is
paint and that which is not. All of my work is original only, I
have purposefully chosen not to print .
- The inspiration for my work comes from many sources, the
sun drenched grapefruit of Scottsdale, soap bubbles in my
kitchen sink, photos from Mars and intimate looks at nature. In
my textured series of florals, I only paint two kinds of flowers,
Artesiam and Latisiferious, both words I made up. In all
paintings I am more concerned with movement and feel than in
the reality of the subject.
- My paintings begin with sketches for overall design and do not
include any detail. I then begin texturing the paper with an
abstract under painting in acrylic. The next layer is textured
with gauzes, threads, ropes, yarns, oriental papers and plastic
bags through which I paint very wet watercolor. Each element
applied for texture will leave it’s own distinct mark, cotton will
texture much differently than silk. The texture left is also
determined by the weather, warm, cold, dry, humid and the
paint. All texturing material is removed after the paint has dried
and the design is then further developed using watercolor,
acrylic and collage materials I have created. I enjoy playing the
different aqueous materials against each other for multiple
layers of transparency.
- My “Worry Free Painting” workshops , which I present all over
the country, focus on having fun with paint and paper and
enjoying the process. “Not to Worry” is one of my favorite
quotes to my students. “Worry always shows in the work of
art, one should paint with joy and authority and leave the
worrying for other things.”
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