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A
new exhibition of paintings by the well-
known artist Susan Kerr opened at the
Gallery, Kypriaki Gonia, in Larnaca on 4
February 2015.
This new exhibition, entitled
The Magic of
Heaven and Earth,
presented for the first time
in Cyprus, paintings of the
Stars
; a series
of artworks that have only previously been
shown in Italy, Austria and UK, at international
exhibitions including the 7
th
Biennale of
Florence, Art & Integration
in Italy, Spirit of
Art in London and Vienna, and the Art Fairs
of Florence and Vienna. In addition, paintings
relating to
Earth
cover a wide range of topics
from landscapes of Cyprus and abroad, flowers
of the earth, and figure compositions.
All the paintings have one thing in common; the
love of light and colour, expressing the natural
elements of earth, fire and water, enveloped by
the immediate environment or space.
Susan Kerr is concerned with expressing light
and space; interior space, landscape space,
or the infinite Cosmos. “Light and colour
are my means of expression and I explore
the innumerable possibilities for creating
this phenomenon,” states the artist. “Recent
paintings are about universal life, and cosmic
space; searching for the mysterious sources
of light, colour and life, and, in this way,
expressing the Magic of Heaven and Earth.”
In the catalogue ‘Il Calore del Colore’ at
Galleria Mentana in Florence, Italian Art Critic
Barbara Angiolini writes of the participation of
Susan Kerr: “This search for pure abstraction, in
which colour is freed from the subject, resolves
itself in an expressive study of the elements.
Energetic exchanges, with cosmological
implications, realise themselves in chromatic
explosions on the canvas.”
The Magic of Heaven and Earth
Exhibition by Susan Kerr
About the artist
Susan Kerr was born in London in 1943 and
studied painting and graphic arts, from 1961 to
1965 at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, and
from 1965 to 1966, Art Education at Leicester
University UK.
She is married to well known Cypriot artist
Costas Joachim, and moved to Cyprus where
she settled in 1966 and acquired Cyprus
Citizenship. They established their studio and
gallery in the occupied village of Bellapais,
birthplace of Joachim, and worked there until
forced to leave in the 1974 Turkish invasion.
She lived and worked in London and Athens
until 1977, then returned to Cyprus, where she
continued to work and exhibit her paintings at
the new Bellapais Studio in Nicosia.
From 2008 Susan Kerr taught Visual Arts (all
levels) at the American International School in
Cyprus Nicosia, until 2008. Then she continued
to work exclusively on painting and graphic
design. Susan Kerr’s first solo exhibition
was at the Cyprus Hilton in 1969 and she has
subsequently held many more solo exhibitions,
including two in Berlin and Munich in
Germany, Greece and many others in Cyprus.
Susan Kerr has also participated in many group
exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad, including
the recent international exhibitions mentioned
above, with the latest being
Little Treasures
in
Bologna, and
Spirit of Art
in Vienna 2014.
