Sue Bleakley is a painter, photographer, sculptor and installation artist. She graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art Sculpture from Falmouth College of Arts, and an MA in Fine Art Sculpture from the Royal College of Art. She is a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and has, for many years, taught 'ways of looking' to 4th year medical students.
In this group of artworks, the artist takes a purely formal approach to Abstraction, using grids and geometric forms to create surfaces that could be described as 'veils' or 'doorways' to a deeper engagement with each piece, achieved through the sustained act of looking.
Her use of colour and geometry makes reference to the sculptural elements of her practice, so that space, distortion and movement become central to the work. Each painting develops from what Susan describes as a 'seed' mark on the canvas, from which the whole emerges through an almost biological process of replication. In her smaller paintings, ideas of layered memory are reflected in the gathering up and falling away of similar forms, which inspire illusions of depth, suspension, and a sense of immersion in geometric space.