Suzannah Sinclair

Suzannah Sinclair says that she uses art to find “the tricky balance between the sexual and the emotional, and which of the two we are more comfortable with.” She characteristically makes references to images found in 1960s and ’70s adult magazines in her mixed-media paintings, applying a combination of watercolor and colored pencil onto various types of wood panel. She uses the wood’s grain as part of her compositions, whether as a skin tone, a texture, or a reference for a curve in the body; the wood’s absorption of the materials’ color gives her works a muted color palette or a faded look. Sinclair also produces drawings and installations that share the themes of her paintings.

ARTIST STATEMENT

They are a memoir.

Nice, little, paintings.

Empty Rooms. Glimpses of women. Studies of flowers. Color, pigment, brush strokes. The feeling of being removed.

From a time, place, person, experience.

Longing. Nostalgia. Isolation.