Sue Rollins

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Landscape, whether real or imagined, is a constant in my work. Fleeting moments, changing weather, and shifting scenes invite exploration and reflection: the landscape is layered with meaning, both figuratively and literally. Recent travels to ecologically diverse places have sparked new bodies of work that investigate the beauty and multiplicity of the earth, finding visible and invisible connections.

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The act of painting, reworking and refining things is a meditation on impermanence and the importance of learning from the past. Painting is both a representation of what I observe, and an expression of what I am experiencing—it connects the world I inhabit with the world that inhabits me. 

 

Curator and artist Julie Durkin Marty says, "Rollins builds worlds through accumulation—each canvas a site where color, gesture, and material engage in productive tension. Her process is one of addition and erasure: layers are built up, scraped back, and reconsidered. What remains are surfaces that hold evidence of their own becoming—ghosts of previous decisions hovering beneath current forms. This archaeological approach to painting transforms the canvas into something closer to sediment, where time becomes visible. Rollins is interested in the liminal—those spaces between representation and abstraction, intention and accident, memory and present experience. Her compositions don’t resolve neatly. Instead, they offer moments of visual friction that hold space for ambiguity. Color operates as both subject and structure in her work. Unexpected chromatic relationships create psychological spaces that feel simultaneously familiar and disorienting, inviting viewers to linger in states of productive uncertainty. "

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