Nature speaks to us in nonverbal languages of light, colour, texture, temperature and tone. These are also the languages of painting which are a collaboration between the sensory body, the mind and emotion, the material pigments and ground. Susie Dureau’s Non Verbal Stories, from the series Fathoms, borrows from these non verbal languages to fathom a bond between herself and the landscape: a bond that is both commonplace and mystifying.

Susie says of this work: “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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