PAINTINGS

While painting and drawing maintain an equal hold in Suzana’s practice, painting is a quieter but no less powerful voice than drawing, offering ways to explore texture, colour, and presence. Though paint flows more fluidly than charcoal, her approach remains rooted in the physical, gestural energy of drawing. She often combines the two, incorporating charcoal directly onto her paintings., rubbing back, layering over, allowing fragments of the drawn line top remain visible beneath the pigment. This blurring boundaries gives her painted surfaces a depth and mystery - histories written and rewritten, forms emerging and dissolving like memory itself.

 

Suzanna frequently works over older paintings, some from as far back as her early years, even incorporating works once made by her late husband. In those cases, the surface becomes site of quiet collaboration- a conjoining of lives, a tender echo. She often leaves a fresh trace his original mark visible beneath the new work, a gesture of honouring that past connection.