Swaying marsh grasses, views from a car window, a lone figure in a boat–all under big changing skies:
these are the things I paint about.
Rich transparent glazes laid over scumbles of thicker paint create an illusion of depth and space.
The method is old and careful and allows me to pin the mood of a landscape like a butterfly under glass.
Influenced by 17th century Dutch landscape artists, oil paintings by Susan Downing-White depict landscape as metaphor, often using visual collage and incorporating custom made frames into intimately-sized pieces.
Susan Downing-White lives and works in Mobile, Alabama and finds the motifs for her landscape paintings in the beaches and coastal scenery of that area. Her childhood was divided between life in South Florida and the Magnolia River in Alabama. She remembers the first painting she ever saw, a portrait of her great-great grandmother, Eliza Randolph Douglas, and has been fascinated by oil painting ever since.
Eugene Delacroix: “Great art derives both from humility before the past and a conviction that what has already been said is not enough.”
Joseph Addison: “A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes.”
