Susan Morris 'Homegrown' - collected minimalist laborious and yet senseless contortion

laborious and yet senseless contortion

Drawn from the sky and horizon as encountered on walks through her local neighbourhood

The highly gestural brushwork oscillate between soft mauve strokes and the dominating strokes of the black figure

Image Size: 90 x 72 cm

Susan Morris 'Homegrown' - collected minimalist laborious and yet senseless contortionBased in Melbourne, Susan Morris is a contemporary painter who is best known for her botanical still lifes. Often painting arrangements of native Australian plants and flowers, Morris compositions appear with dramatic flare, both belonging to the traditional genre of still life painting, and elevating it. In Homegrown, Morris creates a compelling composition, painting a bouquet of red geraniums emerging from a used can of tinned tomatoes. Rendered in