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Oil on oil primed linen. 25 × 29 inches.
“These works are part of an All About Color multi-year series of paintings that initially appeared, as my inner life became transformed during the Covid Pandemic. The solitude of sheltering-in-place awakened a higher attunement to the natural world, and roused an ethereal awareness that I had to express with the brightest of colors. These paintings follow decades of intertwining color, shape, and imagery in oil painting and distinctive printmaking. This direction had to be drenched in color. Color itself became the conversation. Seven decades of artmaking brought me to recast sun-filled-worlds into color-drenched transcendental paintings of cosmic realms and unknown worlds. It has precedence in the artist- knowing how a bright sun plays upon the water and animates a sky with panoplies of color. We all see the come and go of flowers, and the play of ever-changing light passing through the day The term Late Style was coined by the literary theorist Edward Said. He’d wisely stated that “.. works also come late in artistic careers, works that ‘reopen questions’.” With All About Color being my Later Style, there are reflections that come with age, the knit of a lifetime’s journey, and the whispering voice of mortality.” - Suzanne Benton
Oil on oil primed linen. 25 × 29 inches.
“These works are part of an All About Color multi-year series of paintings that initially appeared, as my inner life became transformed during the Covid Pandemic. The solitude of sheltering-in-place awakened a higher attunement to the natural world, and roused an ethereal awareness that I had to express with the brightest of colors. These paintings follow decades of intertwining color, shape, and imagery in oil painting and distinctive printmaking. This direction had to be drenched in color. Color itself became the conversation. Seven decades of artmaking brought me to recast sun-filled-worlds into color-drenched transcendental paintings of cosmic realms and unknown worlds. It has precedence in the artist- knowing how a bright sun plays upon the water and animates a sky with panoplies of color. We all see the come and go of flowers, and the play of ever-changing light passing through the day The term Late Style was coined by the literary theorist Edward Said. He’d wisely stated that “.. works also come late in artistic careers, works that ‘reopen questions’.” With All About Color being my Later Style, there are reflections that come with age, the knit of a lifetime’s journey, and the whispering voice of mortality.” - Suzanne Benton
