Welcome to Art For The Spirited, the website for Susan Cox Davis
My Paintings Come From Within......
When I began to listen to my inner voice, I began painting abstract and expressionistic women. That was the beginning of my "Women 'n Windows" series. Each painting begins with at least two lines drawn randomly or with purpose. Then I paint intuitively making marks then layering shapes, colors, textures, and sometimes collage papers on canvas, board, or paper. Occasionally I use papers that I have made. Many of my paintings have embedded messages of compassion and hope not immediately discernible on the surface-but the underlying message is still there.
The common denominators of my work are elongated women and symbolic houses, trees, and geometric shapes. The trees remind me of our roots and how we are all fed from the Earth. The houses represent a sense of place that we share; no particular place, just where we are in our lives. The windows are our souls; the doors are hearts, some opened, some closed. The squares symbolize the many contradictions in our lives. The women in my "Women 'n Windows" series depict the spiritual and emotional situations of all women everywhere. While the recent paintings seem to focus on women as caregivers watching over their homes and loved ones, I want the viewers to bring their own experiences to my paintings, thereby creating their own meanings.
The spiritual life, to which art belongs and of which she is one of the mightiest elements, is a complicated but definite and easily definable movement.......This movement is the movement of experience."