Stenton Gallery
Susan Brown

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Statement

'Seeing, observing and interpreting are the starting points of my work.

The finished work lies at the extremes of, and mostly between, the two polarities of the figurative (the real) and the abstract (the unseen).

The figurative is reflected in paintings in which information is recorded in one time portraying actual buildings and their environment - an encapsulation of a moment of time. Such paintings explore the mathematics, tempo and movement within and around structures and explore the relationship between man and the built environment. This is an attempt to induce a reminiscent response in the viewer.

The other polarity, the 'unseen', falls into abstraction influenced and inspired by landscape and events, feelings and emotions. This work tends to focus on texture and pattern, on strata and rhythm trying to induce an emotional response in the viewer. This more abstract work, by manipulating time, gives the freedom to play with size and scale and it is possible that elements and objects only truly begin to be seen, observed and understood in such a context.'

Susan Brown 2 November 2006

	'Towards the Piazza Farnese and Palazzo, Rome' 37cm x 37cm watercolour
'Back Streets, Prague' 37cm x 37cm watercolour
	'At the Red Fox, Prague' 37cm x 37cm watercolour
'Palazzo di Giustizia, Rome' 37cm x 37cm watercolour

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