Suzanne Roles Bio And Analysis
Suzanne Roles
Suzanne Roles studied painting and printmaking at Camberwell School of Art from 1979 to 1983.Her still lives are based upon photographs taken with macro lenses and also use natural light to create dramatic shadows, therefore exploring the main interests of space, colour and texture. She is influenced by 16th/ 17th century Spanish still life artists. “My still lives are based upon aerial photographs taken using natural light to create dramatic shadows,” she says, "therefore exploring my main interests of space, colour and texture. Oil paint is particularly suitable for recreating the rich and voluptuous nature of fruit.” “I work in layers building up the image with varying thickness of paint, allowing each layer to dry before continuing, and finally finishing with glazing.” Analysis of the image- The image is 2 full raspberries and 5 parts of raspberries drawn with oil pastels, the raspberries are a shade of warm light to dark crimson and with whites and blacks as the background. The image has very vivid and lively colours which makes the raspberries look juicy and full. The light is coming from the left-middle, this is shown by the reflection of the light on the raspberries mostly on the left top. The image was most probably drawn from sight with the raspberries being in front of her because the raspberries are drawn with exceptional detail and with accurate size and shape. The image looks very realistic and 3D because of the colour and light, the overall shape of the raspberries are a uneven oval-cirlce's. The composition of the raspberries are crowed together to maybe give the effect of there being a lot of them. The texture of the raspberries are shiny and smooth which means that it was drawn by long full strokes to make each “bead” of the raspberries look fat and round. The media that Suzanne used was oil pastels, the techniques she probably used was with long strokes and using white or other colours on top to avoid the oil pastel coming
Suzanne Roles studied painting and printmaking at Camberwell School of Art from 1979 to 1983.Her still lives are based upon photographs taken with macro lenses and also use natural light to create dramatic shadows, therefore exploring the main interests of space, colour and texture. She is influenced by 16th/ 17th century Spanish still life artists. “My still lives are based upon aerial photographs taken using natural light to create dramatic shadows,” she says, "therefore exploring my main interests of space, colour and texture. Oil paint is particularly suitable for recreating the rich and voluptuous nature of fruit.” “I work in layers building up the image with varying thickness of paint, allowing each layer to dry before continuing, and finally finishing with glazing.” Analysis of the image- The image is 2 full raspberries and 5 parts of raspberries drawn with oil pastels, the raspberries are a shade of warm light to dark crimson and with whites and blacks as the background. The image has very vivid and lively colours which makes the raspberries look juicy and full. The light is coming from the left-middle, this is shown by the reflection of the light on the raspberries mostly on the left top. The image was most probably drawn from sight with the raspberries being in front of her because the raspberries are drawn with exceptional detail and with accurate size and shape. The image looks very realistic and 3D because of the colour and light, the overall shape of the raspberries are a uneven oval-cirlce's. The composition of the raspberries are crowed together to maybe give the effect of there being a lot of them. The texture of the raspberries are shiny and smooth which means that it was drawn by long full strokes to make each “bead” of the raspberries look fat and round. The media that Suzanne used was oil pastels, the techniques she probably used was with long strokes and using white or other colours on top to avoid the oil pastel coming