Susan Richter
Susan Richter
Doesburg, Gelderland, Netherlands
About Susan Richter
Travelling I do like a lot but my favourite journey is my white canvas
I always work from a theme: a landscape, figure, mythological symbols, old cultures. It can, in actuality, be anything at all that evokes familiar feelings and images in me and so serves as a simple resource to inspire my work. I do not in any way attempt to actually represent the original resource-subject. Working from evoked images, I find myself arriving in a no-man's land of meaning, and then gradually the subject finds itself, its own naked and vulnerable life..."like the frail tracks of a bird in the snow..." The painting will finally complete itself and its meaning find itself, in the eyes of the viewer.
I always work from a theme: a landscape, figure, mythological symbols, old cultures. It can, in actuality, be anything at all that evokes familiar feelings and images in me and so serves as a simple resource to inspire my work. I do not in any way attempt to actually represent the original resource-subject. Working from evoked images, I find myself arriving in a no-man's land of meaning, and then gradually the subject finds itself, its own naked and vulnerable life..."like the frail tracks of a bird in the snow..." The painting will finally complete itself and its meaning find itself, in the eyes of the viewer.
Education
1970-1977 Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam
1983-1987 master class with Eduard Flor
1983-1987 master class with Eduard Flor
Exhibitions
Centre Culturel Francaise Nairobi
National museum Dar es Salaam
Goethe institute Dar es Salaam
Galery Espace Laag Keppel
Loods 6 Amsterdam
Galery 27 Wassenaar
Galery Lenten Epse
Het oude Kerkje Kortenhoef
Shedhalle Tübingen
Germany and France
National museum Dar es Salaam
Goethe institute Dar es Salaam
Galery Espace Laag Keppel
Loods 6 Amsterdam
Galery 27 Wassenaar
Galery Lenten Epse
Het oude Kerkje Kortenhoef
Shedhalle Tübingen
Germany and France