It’s as if a mad chef split an enormous cooking gallery into all round bowls and pans and rolling pins on one side; on the other, angular cutting boards, trays, rectangle and square pans. “Brights, sweets, for you,” he cries to Susan Jarvis the painter. “Darkness, depth,” he […]
Susan Jarvis has always been an artist. Her first art job, she says, “was scribbling all over my mother’s white chenille bedspread with ruby red lipstick. I don’t remember it but I’m told that it wasn’t received very well.” She scribbled images of her siblings onto paper and […]
Art critic Clement Greenberg once said that “…for Western art in its Modernist phase ‘purity’ has been a useful idea and ideal, with a kind of logic to it that has worked, and still works, to generate aesthetic value and maintain aesthetic standards as nothing else in our […]
