Yorkshire artist Susan Brown at gallerytop in Rowsley

We are delighted to be exhibiting the work of Susan Brown, the Yorkshire artists renowned for her paintings of European cities. 

 

'I have been inspired for much of my working life, both in painting and designing, by two symbols: the circle and the line. I believe that these two symbols hold what I can only describe as a sort of DNA of visual references, a set of parts, representing for me the continuum and the measure of life.

The circle round and contained has no beginning and no end, found in the cycle of life, in the sun, the moon, the earth. The line, becomes the measure, for example between sweet and sour, good and bad, young and old, hot and cold. Together these two symbols, provide the means to understand and perhaps create, to be used as building blocks in the disciplines of painting and design, and for me they are and always will be inseparable.

I’m on the Ile de la Cité in Paris, one of my favourite cities. I’m looking at Notre Dame, iconic, awe inspiring, and I marvel at its size, its majesty, its history, its beauty and intricate detail, its structure and its power. I witness the crowds paying homage to this masterpiece and wonder at the peoples who, throughout history have passed by its doors – I’m searching, essentially, for a connection between this iconic masterpiece and the natural world, and I find it in the line and the circle, the measured and the continuum, symbols of life, of power, perhaps of a spiritual world – God - the Sun - the giver of life - the window - the light on the world.'

 

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