Susan
coley

b. 1957

“In my experience, painting and the art making process is essentially about trust, at its core. Trusting in the process, and trusting in yourself, your instincts and intuition will guide you on the journey.”

Bio

Susan Coley’s work is rooted in intuition and based on methods of surrealist automatism and abstract expressionism. As an abstract painter she works in a variety of different materials to invoke the subconscious mind through figural forms, geometries, landscapes, fields of color and private calligraphic languages. Her paintings are landscapes that may feel familiar: not those that are seen with the naked eye but felt as something familiar and recognizable, they are about the layer below consciousness and making it visible. Coley attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and holds a Master of Science degree in Experimental Psychology from Tufts University and a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College. She currently lives and works in Cambridge, MA.