Susie Dureau

Says Susie Dureau of 'Memory of Twilight, Walking', "This work marks a return to the oceanic and meteorological concerns that have long shaped my practice. Rather than invoking nostalgia in a conventional sense, the painting engages with the atmospheric conditions that imprint themselves on the body: wind moving across the skin, the weight of humidity, the shifting tonalities of smell and sound. This mist-laden scene operates as a sensory memory, distilling the subtle perceptual cues through which the coastal landscape is felt as much as it is seen".

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.