Artist Statement
  Some of our dreams have gone the distance, some of our dreams have been deferred,
  Some of our dreams still live inside us, waiting for our hearts to find the words.      
                                                                                                                        Tom Benjamin 

            

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textural shapes, rhythmic forms, and free-spirited communication with the elements of nature.  My color palette, paper, and canvas became the meeting place for me and my muse to explore new visions. 


Through the arts, I am inspired to participate in transformative experiences where truth, beauty, and healing are the natural attributes. My intention remains the same through all avenues of self expression ... to co-create a bridge from spirit to form which reflects with honesty and emotion the dynamic power and beauty of Creation and the responsibility we share as Co-Creators.


This co-creative process fraught with perplexing puzzles to be solved and challenges to be met on a daily basis reveal at best, “the dreams that lives inside me, waiting for my heart to find the words.” I hope my paintings communicate to you some of the mystery and majesty I have discovered along the way.

                                                                                                                                                              ~ Suchi WB



If a picture is worth a thousand words, then my paintings should speak for themselves. When words seem to fail me, I find through painting and music the power to express the dreams that live inside me. Someone once said that all paintings are self portraits of the artist. This resonated with me as I have come to realize what we bring to the co-creative process is simply a reflection of ourselves ... our unique way of seeing and being in this world. 


I am a potter turned painter. I am also a singer and a songwriter searching like the indigenous people for the "song lines" in the landscape, the rhythms in the ocean and the clouds. For twenty-five years I had my hands in clay, centering myself on a potter's wheel for countless days and nights, creating one-of-a-kind Raku vessels transformed by fire and smoke. 


In rediscovering myself as a painter, I soon realized my experiences as a clay artisan brought a unique perspective to my paintings. Landscapes seemed to emerge out of

           © copyright 2008 Suchi WB