Suzanne Evans Art

Bio

Love has always surrounded Suzanne, from the beginning of life, when she was adopted by a loving couple at thirteen days old. Her adopted Father was a Medical Professor at U.T. Memphis for forty-two years. Her adopted Mother ran an in-home childcare center over 30 years. Love of art began as a child growing up in Memphis, Tennessee right on into High School where she began her first art classes at a private school. There is where the fundamentals and love of art really began. Throughout her younger years, she was introduced to the art of piano and classical music, which she still enjoys to this day. Music and movement influence the marks she makes with both brushes and her own hands-on canvas and paper. In 2016, she thought her world had just ended, being hospitalized for four weeks with the loss of her eyesight due to migraines. After regaining 70% of her vision, she was determined to never take for granted the beauty in this world ever again and began hiking, kayaking, and traveling taking in all the colors and textures that nature gives us freely. She studied many different great artists of all times including Vincent Van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, William De Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler and Grace Hartigan to name a few.

Suzanne uses acrylic and oil pastels to create multi-layered compositions. One of the things that amazes her most in creating art is the movement of her hands becoming more like a musical conductor when he is conducting an orchestra. Every piece she creates is an extension of her inner self. Balancing both the past and the present using bold colors and textural layers help to create such abstract works of art. Combining different ideas and constructing them into a beautiful moving piece is both challenging and rewarding at the same time. To visualize the movement of the music and transpose those movements of rhythm, melody, and color into her painting are intentional strokes of beauty. If a viewer takes a moment to stop and reflect on one of her pieces, then she has accomplished what she set out to accomplish. The accomplishment being that there is a connection between the viewer and the painting. Composition takes careful planning and consideration on canvas and paper. Her paintings give the audience the feeling of rhythm and movement as if one were standing in the midst of a field or in the midst of an orchestra. Without the ability to visualize an idea or concept, no form of art would ever truly exist.

Finally, as an artist, her work is an attempt to connect the viewer to the painting as if the worldly surroundings have grown silent and the only thing that matters at that given moment is the feeling, sensation, emotion and spirituality that one might experience.

Member: Memphis Germantown Art League https://mgal.org/members/

Member: Artists' Link https://artistslinkmemphis.org/our-artists-1

Blog: https://suzanneevansart.blogspot.com/

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