Architectural Forms and Negative Space: Art by Susan Gransby
Artist Susan Gransby uses printmaking and mixed media techniques to create constructed sketches that celebrate architectural forms and negative space. Born in London, England and currently located in Vancouver, BC, Susan’s practice is informed by urban, industrial settings.
I’m impressed by Susan’s reduction linocuts, in which the artist is able to portray fairly complex scenes in a very interesting and original style. With Vancouver landmarks featuring prominently as subject matter, the two-or-three-toned linocut prints express the landscape in an illustrative, two-dimensional way that’s perfectly stylized and never boring.
The front page of Susan's website
Susan’s mixed media works hold to a similar aesthetic, but pare down the imagery to its most skeletal, basic form. These works feature images made through different means, pasted together into almost-abstract compositions on neutral paper. The compositions have a meditative peacefulness to them while the carefully placed images draw the eye expertly across the work.
