Sue burke Harrington
Artist Statement
Water influences our daily life, the ebb and the flow of the tides, the rain that sustains our earth and the water we drink all make a difference in our lives. With this in mind, I am working with water, thinning the paints and letting them flow. To achieve depth and a feeling of texture, I layer many thin layers of color.
I keep layering until I think it’s done, until everything works together.
Once I begin the process, I am immersed in the flow of the paint and the reactions of the colors to each other that often takes my work in unexpected directions. I love to experiment, try new things and ideas. In the end ideas are exchanged and a new conversation is created via the artwork, the artist and the viewer.
Water influences our daily life, the ebb and the flow of the tides, the rain that sustains our earth and the water we drink all make a difference in our lives. With this in mind, I am working with water, thinning the paints and letting them flow. To achieve depth and a feeling of texture, I layer many thin layers of color.
I keep layering until I think it’s done, until everything works together.
Once I begin the process, I am immersed in the flow of the paint and the reactions of the colors to each other that often takes my work in unexpected directions. I love to experiment, try new things and ideas. In the end ideas are exchanged and a new conversation is created via the artwork, the artist and the viewer.