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beauty and the basket
48’ x 36”
watch me!
18” x 14”
ant music
24” x 12”
conceived
18” x 14”
 
ice fishing
20” x 16”
laughing
16’ x 20”
a question of scale
24” x 12”
lingerie
24” x 24”
 
wildly happy
30” x 24”
good horsie
16” x 20”
exuberance!
cirque
24” x 20”
 
spot in a tizzy
spot the dog
fast runner
into the heart of the storm
depending
island time
that summer she met the beast
the one that got away
Susan Ellenton

‘spot on’ series     slide show
the fine art of improvisation
Spot On

This series started by accident, as I was applying black gesso with the intention of underpainting my whole canvas black. The artless paint-lines falling from my squeeze bottle were so engaging I began a prolonged experiment with these. When I first began overpainting in oils, the results mostly obliterated the original black gesso imagery, but more recently I’ve simplified and returned to predominantly transparent oils. Strongly influenced by Inuit printmaking, the paintings of ‘Spot On’ are often particularly joyous. Many of these are featured in my current show.shapeimage_3_link_0