About.

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.