Susan English: Still Light

Susan English employs transparent pigments and layering to manipulate light and illuminate her color field paintings. Describing the importance of light in her work, she explains, "Paintings, in a sense, are ‘still light’—light captured and distilled into permanence. My work is a response to my experience of light. Color is light and light is color.” 

Of this series of work, English says, “Still Light, like a brief poem, speaks to my paintings and to the present moment. January in the Northeast is a time of literal darkness, and for many of us, it is also a dark time in our country. Yet, there is still light—hope in the art of creating, in the presence of art itself."