Sue Vesely MA rca

My figures describe the landscape of the picture plane. Their bodies map out distances via the pose.

Their relative positions create energetic external spaces, a landscape of ethereal external space: space in the atmosphere pressing against the curvature of the earth.

The body of each figure is a landscape in itself.

I dive into these lands, inventing as I go into them features and contrasts, inventing the interplay of colour and form. I work from a visual memory of anatomy and an aesthetic of abstract colour play.

The figures are landscapes within a landscape that has been formed by the perspective of their bodies: worlds within a world.

I listen absentmindedly to the spoken word, a distracting narrative which allows my subconscious mind to control the invention and flow of creative decisions.

As I work entirely from memory and imagination, the naturalistic look of objects and figures is a generic version of the world.

It is rounded down by the filter of memory. We all store and refer to our memory of appearances. It is a shared language that connects us at a level far deeper than words.

'Anominalism.'

                 I use my memory to make invented and abstracted pictures of people and spaces. The ‘memory of appearances’ is a language which connects us at a level deeper than speech. Appearances exist only in the vision and they have no names. Our continuously specific visual experiences form models in the mind, which become generic when simplified by the filter of memory. Easy to read, my figurative images draw the viewer in to engage with the dream-like process of remembering and with interpreting what is signified. The messages within each painting are the results of the process, like something washed up on a shore…