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oil paintings by Susan Parish Adam
Find me at The Other Art Fair
Brooklyn, New York
May 16-19
My oil paintings straddle the line between abstraction and realism using bold graphics to create a quiet landscape. I rely on expressive curves to evoke an emotional response. Straight lines are seldom found.
I start with a photograph. Using an ipad, I create a digital sketch on top of the photo. My process begins with removing details followed by creating eye-catching shapes and sensuous curves to make the composition flow and then settle. I have used the same palette of six colors and a white since graduating from college with an art degree and starting life as a full-time painter. This has led to an acute sense of color mixing.
Over the years my paintings have been an exploration of shape and color as a visual language, an investigation into two extremes co-existing; abstraction and representation, positive and negative space, energy and calmness….Where is the line? Is there a line?
“Susan draws on earlier abstract inclinations to create stylized and stunning riffs on various views, from the town’s Main street to a night prospect of a harbor. She doesn’t go looking for subjects as much as she responds to something that catches her eye: ‘a curve in the road, a commanding tree, a splash of color, or a well placed cloud.” Hers are recognizable motifs filtered through an illuminating eye.”
by Carl Little
Maine Boats Homes and Harbors,
Sept/Oct. issue 2023
Chateau Orquevaux
artists residency November 2023
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