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'Triangles'
oil on linen
86 x 86cm
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| ABOUT THE ARTIST |
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| Susan Preston’s paintings could be described as poetic abstraction or visual reveries. |
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| The artist takes discarded artefacts and fragments, often cultural oddments recovered from beaches, paths and city streets and from this debris make drawings. It is often the least prepossessing, a piece of weed left by the tide, a bent nail in a worn piece of wood that resonates and becomes the starting point for a painting. |
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| Oil paint is mobile and versatile; the imagery changes through the painting process, dissolving and reforming as a layered, ambiguous space develops. Through this meditative process, the work alludes to memory traces, to the shifting spaces between presence and absence, loss and retrieval. |
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| A piece is eventually resolved when the tension between the layers and the elements on the surface draw the viewer into the space, where the painting reveals its secrets slowly; these works repay contemplation. |
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| Susan Preston has exhibited widely, including in Strasbourg and London. Her work is in collections in Europe, Asia and the USA. |
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