Rocky Mountain Water
& Light
Show Statement
The
Rocky Mountain series of paintings emerged from my forty-three years of hiking
Colorado trails across the state. The paintings are an accumulation of
experiences, not just one experience, one place.
I
choose to create work that does not refer to any specific location or time. I
choose instead to invite the viewer into my meditation of my collected
emotional responses from residing for fourteen years in the Colorado Mountains.
Each painting lives in its own time and locale, without depending on a specific
period or place to give it validity.
It
breathes on it’s own, free from a particular association, reflecting back to
the viewer an experience of seeing something new. The painting changes as the viewer breathes
in detail, subtleties of shape, and nuance of color. Then the painting breathes
back to the viewer and a relationship ensues. I invite you to gaze, without
labels, into my shared contemplation.
Artist Statement
As
a Contemplative Artist, Suzanne Frazier creates paintings from a meditative space.
She meditates before she begins each painting session to facilitate moving into
that part of her brain where creativity abounds.
She
writes about her experience, “I lose a sense of time when I paint, and if I am
lucky, I lose a sense of place, and if I am really lucky, I lose myself, and
just paint.”
Her
painting style is a textured process that involves a longer timeframe to create
the work. With a pallet knife, she applies slabs of oil paint on to a blank
canvas to create the image. Then she builds up the texture and blends colors
using a brush. The combination of both elements brings vitality to the work. The
painting can change and modify during all the painting times. Finally, the
composition is sound and the colors are strong and she knows the painting is
complete.
Suzanne’s
source of inspiration comes from the natural world. She takes all her
experiences from living in Colorado since 1972, from hiking above timberline to
sitting next to Boulder Creek, and the accumulation of her experiences erupt in
her paintings as an organic universal experience of living on this planet.
Artist Bio
Suzanne
Frazier combines a BFA degree in Studio Arts from the University of Colorado
with a BA degree in
Philosophy from Lake Erie College to create a philosophical/meditative
approach to art making. In September 2015, Suzanne published her first 24 page
art book, Contemplative Art,
describing her meditative painting process and her definition for contemplative
art amid images of her cloud paintings. Suzanne has been a working artist since
1990 with oil paintings in private collections in the United States, Canada,
Japan and Europe. She is currently represented by Osmosis Gallery in Niwot, CO.
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(Top Left) Rocky Mountain Canyon Light
(Bottom Left) Rocky Mountain Canyon Sunset
(Top Right) Rocky Mountain Rain Sunset
(Bottom Right) Rocky Mountain Evening Light |
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(Left to Right Back) Rocky Mountain Spring Storm, Rocky Mountain Creek Whirlpool
(Top Right) Rocky Mountain Moonlight Summit
(Bottom Right) Rocky Mountain Spring Runof |
