Artists: Suzanne Truman

Nature offers a myriad of sensations and awakens a sense of discovery when one is "exploring" their surroundings. Colors and textures inspire a lyrical essence of story. Being absorbed ion my surroundings, with senses engaged, elicits a sense of wonder. Robin's egg blue sky, indigo nights, aqua seas, red rock canyons; vermillion, azure, sienna, and viridian patinas of lichen covered rocks - these visual and emotional experiences inform my paintings. Thus, the exterior landscape fuels my interior landscape (psyche, mind's eye, soul). 

While painting, I strive to use the elements of an additive and subtractive process in a harmonious way, to evoke a metaphorical aspect of my natural surroundings, and the cumulative effects of natural events that shape the land, and objects therein, over time. As the surface evolves, I sand, scrape, and scratch back into the many painted layers. By intuitively responding to emerging images I feel that I am both weaving and unraveling a "story". I seek to reveal this "discovery" through each finished painting. When complete, I hope to have images that suggest found objects. That is why I conceal my brush strokes. For myself, these paintings functions tiny aspects of the wonder felt in "the land" that can not be explicitly (realistically) represented. In turn, I hope these minimal abstractions stir the "interior landscape" of each viewer and inspire their own sense of visual exploration.