Patterns of the Forest is a bit of a departure from my usual way of working. I wanted to take my interest in natural patterns into more of a landscape subject and working in a larger size to give scope for exploring many textures and patterns.  When I walk through one of our subtropical rainforests here in the Gold Coast hinterland I often become overwhelmed with the richness and depth of pattern in everything I see, ranging from the largest towering tree to tiny lichens and everything in between. It’s a bit like fractal geometry — patterns within patterns within patterns.
In making this work I first spent many hours creating a stack of new stencils based on the patterns of lichen, bark, ferns, fungi and so on. I wanted to concentrate on all the various patterns of the multitude of living things that make up a rainforest. Each section of the painting was masked off and stencilled in turn. After that came a lot of over painting in oil (the surface is intensely worked on over all) including several rainforest animals. In the end I could not leave out my birds, and also a tree frog, if you look hard.
Mixed media – acrylic aerosol and oil on canvas, created with high quality archival materials. stretched on a timber stretcher, unframed, ready to hang.
AUD$3,200
Size:
128w
x 98h
x 3.5d
cms
View in my room
Mixed media – acrylic aerosol and oil on canvas
Ready to hang
Patterns of the Forest is a bit of a departure from my usual way of working. I wanted to take my interest in natural patterns into more of a landscape subject and working in a larger size to give scope for exploring many textures and patterns.  When I walk through one of our subtropical rainforests here in the Gold Coast hinterland I often become overwhelmed with the richness and depth of pattern in everything I see, ranging from the largest towering tree to tiny lichens and everything in between. It’s a bit like fractal geometry — patterns within patterns within patterns.
In making this work I first spent many hours creating a stack of new stencils based on the patterns of lichen, bark, ferns, fungi and so on. I wanted to concentrate on all the various patterns of the multitude of living things that make up a rainforest. Each section of the painting was masked off and stencilled in turn. After that came a lot of over painting in oil (the surface is intensely worked on over all) including several rainforest animals. In the end I could not leave out my birds, and also a tree frog, if you look hard.
Mixed media – acrylic aerosol and oil on canvas, created with high quality archival materials. stretched on a timber stretcher, unframed, ready to hang.
AUD$1,200
Size:
80w
x 80h
x 3.5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$450
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,200
Size:
80w
x 80h
x 3.5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$400
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45w
x 45h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$400
Size:
45w
x 45h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$400
Size:
45w
x 45h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$400
Size:
45w
x 45h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$600
Susan Skuse
AUD$450
Susan Skuse
AUD$600
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79w
x 75h
x 2d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,200
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120w
x 60h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$450
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,950
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128w
x 100h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$2,450
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128w
x 83h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,200
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120w
x 60h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$600
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80w
x 80h
x 3d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,300
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80w
x 80h
x 3.5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,200
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80w
x 80h
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$900
Size:
98w
x 98h
x 3.5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$950
Size:
80w
x 80h
x 3.5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$950
Size:
80w
x 80h
x 3.5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$950
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80w
x 80h
x 3.5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,250
Size:
102w
x 76h
x 3.5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$950
Size:
80w
x 80h
x 3.5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$950
Size:
80w
x 80h
x 3.5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,300
Size:
80w
x 80h
x 3.5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$275
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30w
x 30h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$275
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30w
x 30h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$275
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30w
x 30h
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$275
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30w
x 30h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$275
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30w
x 30h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$275
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30w
x 30h
x 5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$275
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30w
x 30h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$275
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30w
x 30h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$275
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30w
x 30h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$400
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45w
x 45h
x 2d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$400
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45w
x 45h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$520
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45w
x 45h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$520
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45w
x 45h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$995
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91w
x 91h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$875
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81w
x 61h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,450
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102w
x 102h
x 3d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,950
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102w
x 102h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$950
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77w
x 77h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,250
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92w
x 85h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$750
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61w
x 61h
x 5d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,250
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90w
x 120h
x 2d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$2,100
Size:
122w
x 90h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,950
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100w
x 100h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$875
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75w
x 75h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,250
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100w
x 80h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$750
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60w
x 60h
x 2d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$450
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40w
x 60h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$600
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50w
x 50h
x 3d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$850
Size:
90w
x 60h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$450
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50w
x 60h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$1,200
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76w
x 76h
x 10d
cms
Susan Skuse
AUD$850
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60w
x 60h
x 4d
cms
Susan Skuse