Artist, Suzanne Jackson: My name is Suzanne Jackson, and I am a painter, sculptor. These paintings, Wind and Water, are really about imagination and nature.
I was privileged to have this big studio space that I could just really break out and paint. I could even dance while I was painting. I think there’s a great deal of movement in the paintings with the animals and fish in the water and the wind.
On the side with the sun, there are two heads each looking in a different direction with a heart. In the center, we have the birds—they’re almost like swallows. And leaves with the blooming plant, almost like hibiscus. And then on the other side, there’s this female-looking figure on the right. One of her arms is a long stem with a rose at the end. The other arm goes into a big splash of red-orange color that then swoops down low into a big orange fish.
I’m more interested in the spirit of these figures and animals all together as one. Because across oceans, across continents, we have been a part of nature since the beginning. In my work, even now, I want to say there is a great deal of love and beauty in Blackness. There is nature within us.