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Artist Statement for Suzanne Scott Butson
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Many art and craft movements have been influential in my eclectic work
but the highly embellished and ornate continue to be the most significant.
Italian Baroque, Gothic architecture, Art Nouveau, Victorian china and
modernist painting are some of the most influential. Plant forms and the
human figure provide the vocabulary to convey personal and conceptual
concerns. To some extent, in the process of rejecting Victorian values,
a kind of cultural cringe has developed about ornamentation.
However,using natural forms while incorporating embellishment enables
the work to celebrate both nature and the transcendent ability that people
have. Making use of busy, intensely coloured and flamboyant aspects of the
natural, my work veers from a prevailing notion that holds that muted
colours, quiet lines and sparseness are somehow more intellectually sophisticated. Striking the right balance between the natural and the purely decorative is a continual challenge.
Genealogy has provided the most recent grist for the mill in throwing up
issues about ancestral influences, the melding of disparate cultural
identities and the role of genetics. A variety of plants, patterns and
symbols are utilized to represent different cultural aspects.
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