PAINTINGS

The First Supper

"Susan Dorothea White ... explores the most intimate experiences of her life, as well as more topical subjects, in meticulously limned paintings on wood panels. Her ability to examine unflinchingly such personal milestones as her surgery for a benign brain tumour with a dazed self-portrait in a vertiginously askew hospital setting results in some of the most emotionally jarring narrative imagery in recent art."

"The artist has developed a technique using multiple washes of acrylic paint on plywood panels 'with the grain showing through her translucent glazes.' The artist also paints in watercolour, favouring it for spontaneous work. Major paintings are developed through preliminary watercolour compositions and from numerous drawings and pen sketches."

Extracts from Gallery & Studio, New York (1998) (read more...)