Susan Copley

“My work relates to and celebrates the world around us, the natural environment…”

Susan Copley is a Brooklyn born artist with a decades long career in painting. Her works have evolved with her from realism to abstraction, with recurring themes revealed in her use of imagery. Susan’s work has been included in numerous solo and regional exhibitions, and has a book dedicated to her work, Then and Now, Four Decades of Painting. She’s been included in several museum collections including Albright-Knox Gallery and Burchfield-Penney, where her book is available for purchase.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Art has always been the focus of my life and has shaped the way I see the world. I interpret what I see in my own way, somewhere between abstraction and surrealism. My influences are varied: the way the grass feels when you touch it, the nuances of the change in light and shadow, or how the wind creates a feeling of motion. My paintings are about subjective impressions rather than a physical landscape or an actual place or time. Beginning as an abstract painter, my work evolved through realism and back to abstraction again. I see the body of my work in terms of a series of chapters as in a novel as the story progresses.