Susie Dureau

Susie Dureau's 'Golden' is about a sudden moment of clarity. A shaft of light, fierce, ambiguous, cuts through a darkened landscape. It might be sunlight, fire, a meteor, or something quieter; a breath, an insight, a shift in perception. The painting began as a feeling, a tension held in the body and in the landscape. I work between the seen and the sensed, between outer forces like weather and light, and inner rhythms like breath and heartbeat. In 'Golden', these elements converge in a moment that feels both ancient and immediate. The artwork doesn’t explain the light. It simply makes space for it to arrive.

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.