Susan Morris 'Homegrown' - collected minimalist expressive brushstrokes

expressive brushstrokes

'Wanderings III'

Blackman's work speaks to us all

The highly gestural brushwork oscillate between soft mauve strokes and the dominating strokes of the black figure

Drawn from the sky and horizon as encountered on walks through her local neighbourhood

Susan Morris 'Homegrown' - collected minimalist expressive brushstrokesBased in Melbourne, Susan Morris is a contemporary painter who is best known for her botanical still lifes. Often painting arrangements of native Australian plants and flowers, Morris compositions appear with dramatic flare, both belonging to the traditional genre of still life painting, and elevating it. In Homegrown, Morris creates a compelling composition, painting a bouquet of red geraniums emerging from a used can of tinned tomatoes. Rendered in