Nude studies

Evolving nude.  Pencil then acrylic on paper.

Gravestone

Along the same lines.  

Experimenting with composition and style.

Memento mori

/mɪˌmɛntəʊ ˈmɔːri,-rʌɪ/

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   n. an object kept as a reminder of the inevitability of death (fr Latin).

   
   

   
   

   
   

   I'm fond of this one.  The first acrylic I painted, enjoying the tones in the Dutton Park Cemetery under the trees.  Also a great reminder. 

   
   

   Last night I woke and had trouble getting back to sleep.  Worrying unproductively.  I picked up a book at random from the shelf and flicked it open to ... Schopenhauer on life as suffering and the consolation of embracing it.  Suitably consoled.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   

   
   

   
   

   Memento mori

   2012

   
   

   Sue George

   
   

   acrylic on canvas

   35 x 35 cm

   
   

Women can't paint

Words of wizzdom from Georg Baselitz: 

 Women don’t paint very well. It’s a fact,” the 75-year-old German artist told the German newspaper Der Spiegel.  

Women can't paint

2015

Sue George

acrylic and liquid graphite on paper

140 x 190 cm

Perspective

Keeping everything in perspective.  Mornings at Barneyview.

The clearing |charcoal|

The clearing
2014

Charcoal on paper

Suspending time

Inspired by Guy Maestri's roadkill paintings.  The dead rosellas.  Suspended.  Their beauty captured and revered.  Suspended for a moment in time.

Rosella
2014

Guy Maestri
Oil on board



I saw these works at the Melbourne Art Fair and they were breathtaking.  At the same time Israel was bombing the life out of Palestine and I couldn't help thinking of all the lives (colourful, sacred lives) extinguished like roadkill during the bombing.  No one seemed to care.  I wanted to take those lives and suspend them, Maestri-like.  Reverence them.  Remember them.

Roadkill

2014

Sue George

Acrylic on board