"Working from a straw bale studio in the bush, Suzie Riley is a South Australian artist living on Peramangk country in the beautiful Adelaide Hills. Immersed in a landscape that is central to her work, daily walks are a ritual that give her an opportunity to notice subtle shifts of light and shadow, colour and form. Plain air sketches in pastel or gouache are seeds for later work in the studio where she allows these impressions to filter into her work. Drawing on a sensitive knowledge of pigment, and a confident use of tone she explores how opposites reveal each other, seeking a balance of chaos and harmony, and a natural rhythm in the landscape.
Working primarily in oil, initial layers of transparent and opaque paint are built up with variations of calligraphic mark and thick impasto brush marks to add texture and expression, each successive surface echoing the passage of time."
https://www.artworxgallery.com.au/artworx-artists/suzie-riley
Suzie Riley Art can be viewed and purchased at this gallery:
Artworx Gallery and Gifts is one of the leading contemporary Art Galleries on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula.
Artworx Gallery & Gifts opened in October 2005 in the historic river port of Goolwa, 80 kilometres south of South Australia's capital city of Adelaide. Within months of opening, it had established itself as a must-see venue and within a year was being hailed as the finest contemporary gallery on the Fleurieu.
Its success has been confirmed by the SA Great organisation and the Southern Alexandrina Business Association, who have both made special Awards to Artworx in recognition of the gallery's contribution to the local arts scene and local artists.
Exhibiting are highly talented, award winning artists from around the country works including original paintings, jewellery, wood, metal, sculptures and gifts.
Artworx Gallery and Gifts is located in the centre of Goolwa's heritage precinct, in an 1850s stone cottage and warehouse near the town's restaurants, hotels and historic wharf and railway station, where paddle steamers and steam trains rule. With five rooms plus a courtyard, there is plenty for viewing and contemplating.
Works can be shipped throughout Australia and overseas.
Artworx Gallery and Gifts is an experience! Go and Enjoy!
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Contact details for Suzie
https://www.suzierileyartist.com.au/
https://www.instagram.com/riley.suzie/
“Suzie has this amazing ability to capture in her paintings the feelings and emotions of being in the Australian and in particular South Australian landscapes. It was a fun podcast interview to do and I really enjoyed the conversation with Suzie covering many topics that you can see are the layers of many years of developing her arts practice. I feel its a privileged to be able to experience Suzie Riley's paintings of the beautiful landscapes of our backyard of South Australia ”
Tania Ingerson Podcaster/Founder TEA The Entrepreneurial Artist Podcast
I would like to acknowledge that music played on my Podcast is an original tune by
David Innocente, Jazz Musician/Artist