Threads of Color

Quick and decisive strokes fill Susan Horn's canvas. She writes, “As I am painting, I am looking for a resonance—a rhythm that physically hits you like a deep chord. This is the sensation I paint towards.”

 

Deviating from her past semi-abstract landscapes, in this exhibition Horn employs color relationships to communicate an attitude or impression. In these paintings, confined neighborhoods of blue, teal and burnt orange rub shoulders and create a dialog.

 

“Color is the thread I follow through the chaos of a painting. I want you to feel the movement towards order through the compositional relationships I create. The goal is an organic composition that is structured but not symmetrical or static, its conclusions following naturally from all that precedes them.”