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Susie Joyce
As a painter, my practice involves using acrylic on canvas
and paper, watercolour, gouache, oil and soft pastel. I create
layers till it works for me, leaving areas a mixture of
translucence, thick layers creating rich colours. The flexible
glazes can create accidental marks that can inspire
spontaneity and depth. I sometimes place light washes of
colour on to the canvas that I allow to flow or dribble and
dry, before painting the images I have in mind, using
brushes and paint straight onto the canvas.
I create collages, using acrylic paint on paper and card plus
found objects that inspire me. When preparing paper I use
sponges, card, brushes, droppers, and other tools to create
texture formed by many layers of over painting, so that
various layers of colour come through. The prepared papers
and card are then cut, torn and assembled to form the
collage.
My paintings generally have been landscapes, sometimes
people and now the it is of things abandoned, scrap, old and
changed, showing the beauty and light in these things,
abstracted and transformed,
www.susiejoyce.com