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Susan Preston is an abstract painter working mostly in oil paint and pastel. Based in the UK, she has exhibited widely, including in Strasbourg and London. Her work is in collections in Europe, Asia and the USA.
[Shifting Spaces]
"I don’t want to describe things or suggest a narrative but I try to create a kind of space in the image..."
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.
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.