Crane and Nanabush 2009 oil on canvas 18 x 24"
Susan Ross was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She attended The Alberta College of Art and Design between 1979 and 1983, majoring in painting. Her art production had slowed down in the closing years of the late 20th Century but has recently been 'ramping up'. After creating a series of landscapes that fall somewhere between Fauvist and Tom Thomsonesque sensiblities, Ross embarked on a cycle of work employing imagery derived from petroglyphs that she had researched during a visit to Woodview, near Peterborough, Ontario. These sacred and mysterious rock drawings take on new meaning(s) when filtered through Ross's aesthetic scope. Riotous skeins of dizzying hallucinatory colour coalesce with retina-burning intensity in this group of paintings; pictures that could induce the very visions that inspired them.
Contact Susan Ross at: rossfloyd@rogers.com
Geometric Trance 2011 oil on canvas 36 x 30
Kitchi-Manitou 2009 oil on canvas 48 x 36
Shaman Vessels 2010 oil on canvas 40 x 30
Shaman's Gallery (tryptich) 2010 oil on canvas 30 x 120
Shaman's Gallery Part I 2010
Shaman's Gallery Part II 2010
Shaman's Gallery Part III 2010
Solar Boats 2009 oil on canvas 48 x 36
Soul Boat 2010 oil on canvas 30 x 30
Woman and Double Snake 2010 oil on canvas 36 x 48
Cumash Cosomology 2011 oil on canvas 30 x 36
Agawa Rock 2009 oil on canvas 40 x 60
