"Susan Dorothea White ... explores the most intimate experiences of her life, as well as more topical subjects, in meticulously limned paintings on wood panels. Her ability to examine unflinchingly such personal milestones as her surgery for a benign brain tumour with a dazed self-portrait in a vertiginously askew hospital setting results in some of the most emotionally jarring narrative imagery in recent art."
Gallery & Studio, New York (1998)
The artist has developed a technique using multiple washes of acrylic paint on plywood panels, often accentuating the wood grain to create texture through translucent glazes. Major paintings are developed through preliminary watercolour compositions and from numerous drawings and pen sketches. The artist favours watercolour for spontaneous work, flower and nature studies.
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"Susan Dorothea White ... explores the most intimate experiences of her life, as well as more topical subjects, in meticulously limned paintings on wood panels. Her ability to examine unflinchingly such personal milestones as her surgery for a benign brain tumour with a dazed self-portrait in a vertiginously askew hospital setting results in some of the most emotionally jarring narrative imagery in recent art."
Gallery & Studio, New York (1998)
The artist has developed a technique using multiple washes of acrylic paint on plywood panels, often accentuating the wood grain to create texture through translucent glazes. Major paintings are developed through preliminary watercolour compositions and from numerous drawings and pen sketches. The artist favours watercolour for spontaneous work, flower and nature studies.
THEME:
People
People
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People: The human narrative and genre scenes inspired by domestic situations, people at work, musicians, commuters, social issues, blindness, illness, poverty, old age. Portraits include family members, self-portraits, children, babies, and people in their environment. In major paintings the subject is repeated from varied viewpoints in a fugal style composition.
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Awaiting (Glebe), 1971
acrylic on composition board
66 x 56 cm
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Joan Kinmont, Writer, 1969
acrylic on composition board
70 x 60 cm
Private collection, UK
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Paul, Soulful Young Boy, 1968
oil on composition board
30.5 x 25 cm
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Michaela with Doll, 1967
acrylic on composition board
30.5 x 30.5 cm
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Uncle Ted, Stirring Tea, 1967
acrylic on composition board
61 x 76 cm
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Portrait of Baby Paul, with Hands, 1965 circa
oil on cardboard
60 x 40 cm
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Michaela Cuddling Paul, 1965
oil on composition board
91 x 61 cm
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Michaela Pointing to Baby Paul, 1965
oil on composition board
51 x 84 cm
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Babies: Michaela and Paul, 1965
oil on composition board
40.5 x 50.5 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Baby Paul, Hot Summer Night, 1965
oil on composition board
122 x 91 cm
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Baby Paul, 1965
oil on composition board
41 x 47 cm
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Baby Michaela, 1964
oil on home-prepared duck on composition board
57.5 x 46 (var)
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Perce (remaining fragment of destroyed painting), 1962
oil on composition board
81 x 29 cm
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Rosalind Hughes, 1962
oil on composition board
61 x 44.5 cm
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Dad (WRB White) under Tungsten Light, 1961
oil on composition board
48 x 42 cm
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H L (Les) Cotton, 1961
oil on composition board
58 x 48 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Dad Working at Kitchen Table, 1961
oil on composition board
91 x 76 cm
Verso: Rocky landscape, 1960 (76 x 91 cm)
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Brother Bill Reading, 1961
oil on composition board
42 x 33.5 cm
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Flick (Felicity Thompson), 1960 (circa)
oil on composition board
44.5 x 44 cm
Private collection, UK
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Rocky Landscape, 1960
oil on composition board
76 x 91 cm
(verso of Dad working at kitchen table, 1960, 91 x 76 cm)
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Ted Wearing Glasses, 1960
oil on composition board (saw-cuts on right side)
53.5 x 39.5 cm
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Uncle Ted in Dressing Gown, Reading, 1959
oil on composition board
82 x 66 cm
PAINTINGS :
People
67 Works
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PAINTINGS :
People
67 Works
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