Susan Laughton
To buy these & add to your collection – Tel: 01377 236008
or email: mail@duckettandjeffreys.com
Susan Laughton - Original Framed painting - Trace 1 - Painting 10cm - Frame 19cm - Price £150
Susan Laughton - Original Framed painting - Trace 2 - Painting 10cm - Frame 19cm - Price £150
Susan Laughton - Original Framed painting - Trace 3 - Painting 10cm - Frame 19cm - Price £150
Susan Laughton - Original Framed painting - Trace 4 - Painting 10cm - Frame 19cm - Price £150
The landscape is my starting point, not as a picturesque static view, but as a space travelled through and experienced often on the edges of the urban and the rural. It is a source of man made and natural structures, surfaces and colour that allow me to construct my own pared down responses to capture memories of land and sky and the marks we make upon them.
I make drawings of remembered details seen from the corner of my eye, fleeting juxtapositions elusive to photography or more studied compositions. These feel like a search for my own language of marks, signs and symbols to bring order, balance and control to an often chaotic visual world. Man made structures, in particular, impose their presence on the sky: power lines, telegraph poles, fences, bridges, cut hedges, an isolated building.
At the painting stage, in contrast to these drawn linear elements, my work is influenced by the effects of time, weather and decay, from details to distant horizons. I feel there is a poetic beauty in rusting metal, worn paint work, the opaque white sky of northern England. The observed leads into a more imagined, intuitive approach. Process in itself also becomes important; a two way process where the painting becomes an entity in itself. I use plaster, gesso, paint and collage to create subtle tactile surfaces framed by sharp, yet eroded edges. Sanding the surface adds random marks and scratches that contrast the more considered elements, and help me to express how the landscape feels rather than looks. Sometimes layers of colour are washed away and reapplied many times. Structured and methodical approaches combined with spontaneous and intuitive reactions allow me to plan and take risks: to combine control with ‘let‘s see what happens if…’
TO BUY THESE & ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION – TEL: 01377 236008
or email: mail@duckettandjeffreys.com
Susan Laughton
To buy these & add to your collection – Tel: 01377 236008
or email: mail@duckettandjeffreys.com
Susan Laughton - Original Framed painting - Trace 1 - Painting 10cm - Frame 19cm - Price £150
Susan Laughton - Original Framed painting - Trace 2 - Painting 10cm - Frame 19cm - Price £150
Susan Laughton - Original Framed painting - Trace 3 - Painting 10cm - Frame 19cm - Price £150
Susan Laughton - Original Framed painting - Trace 4 - Painting 10cm - Frame 19cm - Price £150
The landscape is my starting point, not as a picturesque static view, but as a space travelled through and experienced often on the edges of the urban and the rural. It is a source of man made and natural structures, surfaces and colour that allow me to construct my own pared down responses to capture memories of land and sky and the marks we make upon them.
I make drawings of remembered details seen from the corner of my eye, fleeting juxtapositions elusive to photography or more studied compositions. These feel like a search for my own language of marks, signs and symbols to bring order, balance and control to an often chaotic visual world. Man made structures, in particular, impose their presence on the sky: power lines, telegraph poles, fences, bridges, cut hedges, an isolated building.
At the painting stage, in contrast to these drawn linear elements, my work is influenced by the effects of time, weather and decay, from details to distant horizons. I feel there is a poetic beauty in rusting metal, worn paint work, the opaque white sky of northern England. The observed leads into a more imagined, intuitive approach. Process in itself also becomes important; a two way process where the painting becomes an entity in itself. I use plaster, gesso, paint and collage to create subtle tactile surfaces framed by sharp, yet eroded edges. Sanding the surface adds random marks and scratches that contrast the more considered elements, and help me to express how the landscape feels rather than looks. Sometimes layers of colour are washed away and reapplied many times. Structured and methodical approaches combined with spontaneous and intuitive reactions allow me to plan and take risks: to combine control with ‘let‘s see what happens if…’
TO BUY THESE & ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION – TEL: 01377 236008
or email: mail@duckettandjeffreys.com
Biography
2002
BA Hons Visual Art & Design (First)