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Close to Closing oil on canvas 43 x 47

Artist Biography:

Susan Romaine’s representational works are characterized by strong architectural shapes, which emerge from a dense shadow or night and evoke a sense of the universal human quest for union and place in the world. Primarily self-taught, Romaine has studied with two highly acclaimed artists, Burton Silverman of New York and Clifton Peacock of Charleston. In 2001, she was invited through a juried process to join Oil Painters of America, one of the most prominent art organizations in the US, as an associate member and has participated in their Eastern Regional juried show. In 2003, she was named the Gibbes Museum Artist-in-Residence for 2003-2004. Her work is in the Musuem’s permanent study collection and was part of their recent exhibit, Places and Spaces: Landscapes and Genre Scenes of the South.

Romaine, who began her career in 1999, has enjoyed considerable success with both private and corporate collectors nationwide. She is represented in galleries in Charleston, SC and Santa Fe, NM.

Susan Romaine

Charleston

Susan Romaine's work is represented at: Smith Killiam Gallery and Peterson-Cody Gallery

About the Work:

Born from our creative energy, the structures we build seem to retain a connection to us long after we move on and I am intrigued by that ethereal something we leave behind in them. To me, it reaffirms my belief that energetically or soulfully we never die. When I paint a structure either in the full light of day or at night with light upon it and pouring from it, I am looking to translate onto canvas that sense I get of the humans who created it and the life force they breathed into it. When successful, the art world describes this as a painting that has a strong sense of place and it is that, but to me this is more than simply being able to identify where and what the image is. I consider a painting successful if an observer comes away with a sense of the humans who gave birth to and occupied the place under study – a sense of that ethereal something that is the core of our being.