SUZETTE CLOUGH

From my earliest longings to get my hands on material - mud, balls of wool, paper, offcuts from my mother's dressmaking, pocketfuls of stones and shells - making things has been my way to understand the world. As I grew older, exploring with paint quite naturally followed. The very physicality of painting - hand to paper, brush to canvas has threaded me back together when I've been utterly undone.

Painting is my Spirit practice - the alchemical lens that connects me with my own inner nature and a subtle kinship with Earth, Big Nature and the multiverse of Invisible Worlds.

Over the years, I have come to understand my work as a painter as a process of becoming a better listener to the voices that come through Material - painting has evolved into an act of deep listening to Earth and the Ancestor Stories that flow through onto canvas and paper.

I have come to understand these voices as a dimension of original creational intelligence/s that I call the Pattern Creation Ancestors. These creational intelligences speak the same language as Earth - they show themselves through the branching patterns of rivers across a floodplain, the intricate lymphatic networks beneath the bark of a tree, and the branching vessels that carry oxygen through our lungs. These ley line are not accidental coincidences - rather they are the language of an animate universe to which we are utterly connected.

My work is an evolving relationship with these fundamental creational patterns - not abstractly but as a langauge that runs through my body onto the page.

EarthWorks

EarthWorks is at the heart of my creative practice - often created with natural pigments, beeswax, earth, dust and metal powders. Some paintings in this ongoing series are small enough to be held in the palm of the hand, whilst others extend up to five metres, holding vast patterns that reflect the very skin of Earth.

EarthWorks emerge as living energy patterns - a painted ecology containing the resonance of wind, lightning, sunlight on water, or the imprint of stone, trees, soil, animals and fire.

They hold ecological stories and corporeal presences of Earth Devas that long to be witnessed, remembered and honoured as we teeter on the edge of climate, species and ecological catastrophe. My creative practice is about leaning into these Earth voices, which can heal us into remembering that we too are connected in Creation.

My work follows in the spiritual tradition of women artists as storytellers and healers of the soul - such as Hildegard von Bingen, Itell Colhouquon, Georgiana Houghton, Ana Mendieta - to name just a few of the women painters who have often worked invisibly with the Invisible.

Within this lineage, I weave several different strands of Creation - one of which is my fine art painting practice and another is my spiritual creative teaching practice - Visual Medicine™ which I have shared with hundreds of people over the last 25 years. Visual Medicine™ a visionary painted language developed through decades of exploration into the relationship between perception, materiality, healing and Creation.

These two strands of my work are deeply connected - whilst each has its own distinct expression.

I warmly welcome conversations about my work and would love to hear from you.

I have a beautiful, active archive of paintings that you are welcome to explore online or visit in person at my studio in London and Devon.

I am very happy to email photographs or videos of my paintings - or connect over zoom.