All life and matter are fundamentally one. My art is a melding of external and internal realities: a spiritualised expression of nature's underlying character. I feel that the human psyche is more than a system for cold, hard analysis. We are also emotions, intuitions, fears, aspirations, and myriad other undefinable things. My mature work represents my personal synthesis of modernist principles with my intuitive response to nature's forces and flows. My paintings express the layering, ambiguity, subtlety, sensuality and spirituality of life.
I believe a prime function of artists in society is to bring to the viewer a new and exciting visualization. In 1988 I had the awesome experience of seeing a Millwell on the Saskatchewan Glacier. Millwells are huge caverns carved by water into the surface of the glaciers. My immediate reaction was a I am so grateful to have lived to see this! The shapes were magnificent, the colours were subtle and incredibly beautiful. I had found a subject that excited me visually and through which I could express the philosophy in my paintings, a person's place in the universe.
Eileen Raucher Sutton was an established New York City artist before moving to Edmonton in 1984. She currently resides in Las Vegas,NV. She was born in New York City and received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Fine Art from City University of New York. She has shown her work extensively in the United States since 1970, including several solo and museum shows in the New York City area. In July/Aug. 1997 her paintings were shown at the Forum Artis Museum of contemporary art in Bologne, Italy. Her work has received acclaim from such prominent critics as Vivienne Raynor of the New York Times, Lawrence Alloway; Ann Percy, curator of drawing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Linda Shearer, assistant curator of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. It has been reviewed in such prestigious publications as Art News and American Artist. Her paintings are included in numerous collections throughout North America, including the corporate collections of Bell Labs, American Bell, General Motors, the University of Alberta McKenzie Health Sciences Centre, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Miseracordia Hospital, Northwest Insurance Co., Carlson Construction Co., Reed Stenhouse, and Interprovincial Pipeline.