Pull (Left) by Suze Woolf (2010)

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Description This image is the left side of a diptych entitled 'Push and Pull'. These two tugboats seemed to be settling down for the night together like some mammalian creature rather than industrial boats rafting up. Be sure to get 'Push (Right)' with it. I recommend gallery wrap canvas (black).

Suze Woolf, Seattle
Member Since November 2009
Artist Statement My goal is to transport the viewer into the world of the painting -- and yet that viewer always remains aware my hand wielded the brush.

To me, a good painting provides an alternative moment of perception, a sudden strangeness or an intense familiarity that the viewer instantly feels but could not have otherwise articulated. Gary Faigin, in his commentary on the Purposeful Surfaces show, said I was like the old expeditionary painters in my awe and excitment at the discovery of my subject matter.

I become obsessed with the source of an image, and repeat it 2, 3, 6 times and more; I wake up at night thinking about it and occasionally get up to paint all night. I carry my paints to many locations: bundled against ravening mosquitos at 9000 feet in the Sierras, painting Ragged Ridge, drawing on the Granite Glacier in the Canadian Selkirks, skis still on, and standing in mucky tideflats to paint the industrial waterfront.