Sue Hoya Sellars was voted by the members and visitors of Universe Spirit as our July/August Visual Artist of the month.
Statement from Sue Hoya Sellars, Visionary Artist
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Whether I am doing studies of deer in my meadow or painting an angel moving between dimensions, there is always a glimmer of the cosmos showing through their bodies and parts of the landscape. My work has one primary concept: exploring the formation of our bodies from the cooling of gaseous material originating from the beginning of the universe. I use this cosmic mater as the background for the painting and sculpture I create. I do this in order to provide us with a visual, mental and spiritual reference for our place in the universe. One unifying all encompassing elegant Creator is behind all that there is. This includes every single thing, every tree, thought, idea, being, star, tiny frog and the clay that I sculpt with. |
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I am in agreement with the premise that shape is dictated by content. How we live in these bodies that is made from atoms that are older than the planet that we live on, has been an obsession of mine for some time. this obsession has compelled me to look into diverse materials: metaphysical, scientific, spiritual, and how they’re all talking about the same thing.
Having illustrated biological, anthropological and psychological text books for over forty years the question that continued to resurface was always the same: who lives in these bodily constructions? Since we are not the people that we are becoming, I love digging in my mind for new ways of depicting our being by graphically exploring our possible shape and form. |
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When I begin a painting, the background of cosmic clouds of solidifying gases eventually becomes trees or wings and other minutiae that supports the primary element of the paining. These rich textures are the stuff that the figures emerge out of. Often in my paintings I enjoy using two different applications of paint on the same piece which implies more than one dimension. For example, I may use a classical style on the picture plane and then move into a more contemporary and loose style where the ‘elements’ (star stuff) move out into the actual framework. That framework is the actual frame, and the extension of the painting which literally and visually expands by the addition of another dimension: a window to the cosmos. I build and carve and paint that frame custom for every painting, using materials of wood, clay, metal and other organic matter. I also print my own giclee’ on canvas and paper in my studio in Mendocino County. Often I will make a hanging for the print, reminiscent of a Japanese scroll with a bar of metal and wood and fittings on the ends. The ends are individually sculpted and are made of clay that I dig and process on my land. |
To contact Sue Hoya Sellars, please call The Wisdom House Gallery, 45280 Main Street, Mendocino, CA 95460, 707-937-3360.
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