Susie Dureau

'Embers' reflects on what lingers after an experience: the subtle residues, impressions, and quiet intensities that persist beyond immediate perception. Rather than referencing fire directly, the work considers “embers” as the remains of the day: a faint glow, a promise held in suspension. Through layered colour and restrained gesture, the painting traces the transition between presence and afterimage, moment and memory. Forms emerge and recede, creating an atmosphere of quiet continuation. In this space, the work proposes that endings are seldom finite; they hold within them the warmth of potential, the slow illumination of what is still unfolding.

Susie Dureau’s oil paintings, light installations and spectrogram collages are portals into other worlds: worlds where reality and imagination are interchangeable. She ‘feels’ as a way of thinking, using her primary experience of the natural world as a guide. While her artworks are landscape-based, they invite non-literal interpretations about light, colour, and energy in the landscape. They point to the wildness and primal nature in humankind. Her current investigation explores the forces that bind humanity into an intimate reciprocal relationship with the more-than-human world.