Susie Dureau’s Honey Cinnamon Sea, from the series Fathoms, borrows the non verbal languages of light, colour, texture, temperature and tone; to fathom a bond between herself and the landscape: a bond that is both commonplace and mystifying.

Susie says of this work: “It never fails to amaze me how many colours the ocean casts and, on the day remembered in this painting, the colours felt like a gift, a tonic for the soul. 

“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.”

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