Susan Gale's work
explores the nostalgia of community by highlighting the peaceful, quiet mystery
of light and juxtaposing its nuance against the rush of visually invoked
sensation. She evokes the senses by exploring images with manipulation of form,
surface, and palette. With this intention, she exaggerates each painting's
elements of color, framing, and texture and employs rich hues and playful pointillism.
Gale’s work investigates the space between abstraction and representation and
allows for a rich direct language of mark-making.
Gale's unique
aesthetic reflects the dominant theme of her work: emotion. In her practice, Gale
captures cityscapes and images of everyday places, then assigns them a
subjective graphic meaning. In this form of expression, gestures, and shapes
start to invoke the feeling of being transported to these places. Gale
continues to work the images through a lens of emotion as they bring beauty and
form back to their most simple compositional elements.
Gale was born in Stephenville, Newfoundland in 1977, she
studied painting at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design from 2000 to 2004 and
received her BFA. Gale moved to Toronto in 2005 where she has been painting, exhibiting,
and selling her work consistently since graduating from NSCAD.
Gale’s work has appeared in several home design TV shows,
including Property Brothers. Her artwork has been collected throughout Canada
and the US.
