Suzannah Sinclair

Suzannah Sinclair says that she uses art to find “the tricky balance between the sexual and the emotional, and [examine] 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.