Whatever the subject matter, Susanne’s paintings usually work into a series because the soul of the image cannot be translated in just one painting, but must be thoroughly explored. Susanne Darius is an innovative emerging West Coast artist. Whether an image is portrayed in landscape or as an abstract depends on the creative process and the artist’s eye. The warm Spanish countryside has influenced Darius’ work by transforming and cementing her landscape style, but the mercurial artistic path sometimes leads to stunning rock faces with protruding sculpture or very modern representations of birch trees on a dark ground.
Exhibition History
1993 – 1996 Bonny Roberts Watercolour Show, Delta, BC
1995 – 1996 Mind and Matter Gallery, White Rock, BC
1996 Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver, BC
1996 Newlands Golf Club
1996-1997 Centerville Art Emporium, Chilliwack, BC
1997-1998 The Downstairs Gallery, Chilliwack, BC
1997 Fraser Downs, Surrey, BC
1998 Exhibition Grounds, Hastings, Park, Vancouver, BC
2001 City Hall, Chilliwack, BC
2007 Buckland Southerst Gallery, West Vancouver, BC
2007 Gourmet Gallery, Abbotsford, BC
July 2009 Evangeline’s Barbeque, Chilliwack
2009 Hollyburn Country Club
2010 Landscape Competition, Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery
2011 Landscape Competition, Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery
2008 - present The Grey Area Gallery, Chilliwack
Publishing
1993 Gold in Life’s Hourglass – illustrations for chapter headings, Maple Lane Publishing Services
2009 - present Bentley Publishing Group
Artist Statement
I try to capture some of the drama of the natural world in my paintings; beautiful moments in the outdoors that, when painted, will last for a lifetime, inside, on someone’s walls. I find that when I look at a well executed painting I am transported and uplifted. That is what I want to do for the viewer – allow them to be transported, enchanted. Some of my work is painted in a softer palette, not as dramatic as others, to persuade the mind to calm and be still in a peaceful place.
