Western Australian artists often forge new frontiers, perhaps because of the creativity that comes from the isolation of our state, or perhaps it is the environment that nurtures a free spirit. Whatever the reason, Susanne Hamlin Sullivan is one of those artists that is breaking barriers and expressing her self in a way that heralds innovation, life and boldness.

Susanne Hamlin-Sullivan has acquired a reputation for her magnificent, bold and beautiful mixed media paintings. They are artworks that will shock your senses.

Robust and vibrant work, providing both a visual and tactile experience for the viewer, forcibly connecting us with the shocking beauty of our natural environment. The drama Susanne creates in her work is not in the content of what she paints, but rather in her interpretation.

Susanne’s depiction is from a magnified, layered perspective where the colour and texture races forward and engulfs you in joyful emotion and feeling. Susanne’s ability to exude life in her work is exciting and uplifting. The outrageous colours she employs break the rules that so many artists have been recently bound by.

Susanne’s work brings together a decorative but strong contemporary aspect with fluctuating depth and spatial illusion created by working with semi-transparent layers of pigment washed one upon another. She frequently uses metallic paints to create the effect of movement in her works

© 2005 Susanne Hamlin-Sullivan