¨It is a constant struggle to break free from objective work that is so engrained in me from art school and years of working in photography.The most simple things for me are the most difficult, having learned and followed the rules, I now want to break them,.¨
Suzanne Davies is a semi abstract painter, living and working on the North Coast of Cornwall.
After studying Fine Art at Newport College ( University of South Wales ) She went on to study advertising, and editorial film and photography. before moving to London and worked as a producer for editorial and advertising photography before moving into commercials. During this time she studied still life at St Martins School of Art and continued to attend constant life drawing classes, always sketching.
She now works in oil paint on wood cradled birch canvas. Her process starts with something she sees, an idea or memory that inspires her and she quickly sketches a small story-board, that is influenced by the everyday. Which changes constantly. This helps her work out the composition and her pallet before setting up the still life, selecting objects from her kitchen and home as well as produce she may bring to the studio or a recipe, an object, or colours she has seen and then sketched as reference. This allows her to create not just from life but also from memory, using her perspective and not just what she sees in front of her but how she sees it.
Her inspiration comes from simple objects, the colours, textures and marks revealing their past and present, they tell a story especially with hand made or old. objects. She combines these with the colours of the landscape and ocean where she lives.