Susie Dureau’s A Perfect Day, from the series Fathoms, explores the idea that each day holds the potential for something extraordinary to happen. Susie’s painting practice engages a method of cultivated curiosity: slowing down and attuning her senses to the landscape, thereby accessing embodied knowledge that arises from thinking and feeling in unison.

Susie says of this series: “The coastal landscape (the environment my body is intricately connected to) offers a compelling sensory field for me to explore my being – this is why I am drawn to it. My painting practice engages a method of cultivated curiosity: slowing down and attuning my senses to the landscape, thereby accessing embodied knowledge that arises from thinking and feeling in unison. 

“Nature speaks to me in nonverbal languages of light, colour, texture, temperature and tone; these are also the languages of painting. Painting is a collaboration between the sensory body, the mind and emotion, the material pigments and ground. Through the artworks in this exhibition, I borrow these languages to fathom a bond between myself and the landscape: a bond that is both commonplace and mystifying.”

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