| Sue Vesely trained as a painter at The Royal College of Art. She works in her studio in East Staffs, and sells her work on the web. The work is painterly and constructed of many layers of oil, the final image resulting from hundreds of changes in which figures come and go.
The human body is seen as a landscape of colour and form, the pose expressing the emotional life of the mind within. The limitations of the body are a common language between the viewer and painted figures. The naturalistic description of a familiar world uses the subconscious language of existentialism to give the viewer the impression that the image is about him, that he has been in this reality before. The viewer connects existentially and emotionally with a world in which visions of murder, heroism, life, death, sun and lust, are all executed in deceptively beautiful colour and with a degree of painterly skill rarely seen.
"I use images of statues to represent the idea of the body as a monument to itself and our culture, and images of real, fleshy bodies to represent emotional life. The winged figures represent that part of our thought that refuses to be material and finite." This is a 21 st century view of themes eternal.
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