Susan Zoon Art

STYLE DEVELOPMENT   -   Beginning roughly 1985

     During my 20 years as porcelain restorer (1980-2000), I worked on hundreds of Asian porcelain artifacts from Ming vases to lowly English market knock-off teacups. Many of these were decorated with cloud motif vectors.
   
     I studied them thoughtfully. To affect the restorations, I would have to expertly match and reproduce them. In so doing, they became ingrained in my technique, much as the glazing of porcelain became the training for my glazing successive layers of color on canvas.

     In the creation of my painting style, it was the scrolling cloud vector that became the element to lend the work a curvilinear, more feminine flow that generally did not exist in the works of many cubists. The cloud vector became the grounding element of my style in which the cubist forms and refractions spin off of the curling gyres of the vector, often surreally superimposed on sky and water. Two of the elements that combine to form clouds. You will find these elements in almost every piece of my 2-dimensional work.