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Susan E.
Eck was born and
raised in Toronto, Canada. In her late 30’s she became
aware of her increasing desire to express her heart-felt
feelings by writing intimate poems and painting. It wasn’t
long after that she decided to pursue her dream of
becoming a professional artist. She moved to a causal
country setting located in Muskoka in order to immerse
herself in her artwork. She is predominantly a
self-taught artist who studied painting at The Ontario
College of Art and Design in Toronto and is working on
her Master’s in Applied Arts at Royal Roads University
in Victoria, B. C.
In her
short period as a visual artist, she’s developed a
long list of International Art exhibitions, and most
importantly an International recognition/profile for her
paintings. In her latest collection of artwork, entitled
"Reflections", Susan shares her sensitive
interpretation in "being present"- with nature
and spirituality by capturing the spirit of light and
balance. Certainly her colours are otherworldly and her
portrayal of the natural world takes the viewer beyond a
simple mirrored reflection of nature. Her paintings are
emotionally charged with intensity akin to the work of
Van Gogh; she plays with light and colour saturation
boldly and creatively. Her paintings seek human emotion
in nature, and reflect it back to the viewer - an
especially extraordinary and powerful enterprise. With
passion and simplicity she captures nature’s beauty in
landscapes and seascapes.
Susan’s
stunning paintings evoke a vast, visionary world of
passion and magnificence. Wonderfully rich in hue, her
ethereal works are sublime visualizations of a complex,
visible realm. Utilizing colour to depict emotions, Ms.
Eck transcends the limits of physicality in her work,
generating contrasting illusions of translucence,
opacity, and immateriality, while simultaneously evoking
the strata of Earth.
Inspiration in Bloom
oil on canvas 18"x24"
2008
Her artwork
is best described by Ruthie Tucker, Executive
Director-Curator, at Whitney Amsterdam International Art
Gallery, New York, NY:
"Ms.
Eck’s paintings are emotional dreams and personal
visions of nature’s mystification. They can appear
at once to be the most exquisite displays of natural
wonderment, or they can be surreal revelations that
only a mind’s eye as imaginative as Ms. Eck can hope
to conjure. The tactile quality of Ms. Eck’s work is
nothing short of superb. These works live and breathe
among us, their surfaces so seemingly peripatetic that
one would not be surprised if colours or gestures
shifted within the frame when no one is looking.
Additionally, Ms. Eck’s enormous talent as a
colourist permits her to employ a measureless array of
tones that mingle with one another constantly across
the picture plane. These paintings are thoroughly
organic in their colours’ mobility, in their
indefinite resemblance to Earthly phenomena, and in
their enigmatic surface texture. Ms. Eck’s brilliant
works undeniably position her well within the cannon
of contemporary master artists".
Freedom
oil on canvas 30"x36"
2008
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