For this artist, it’s not me capturing a moment, it’s a moment that captures me. Visions well up with energy. Chaos begins, then is scraped away. Marks applied, color builds and is refined until it says, “Finished.” Then the greatest joy comes when it is passed along to someone else.
For Sue Scoggins, her place to create was a blank canvas. That canvas took her in as she journeyed along side of her husband with young onset Alzheimer disease. Gradually, she transcended from coping to pure creating. Art gave her strength. It was passion and comfort, memory, confidence and want, alive on each awakening canvas.
With each brushstroke and bold, shimmering hues, her paintings show that good can come out of the bleakest situations. Spreading joy transformed her.
Her gallery and commissioned works now hang from New York to Florida, North Carolina to Hawaii and to places far afield as Spain, Italy, Hungary and France. Published works appear in the Italian Literary Anthology textbook. Chosen surfaces, full of hope and a spirit forged from the hottest, harshest flames, now dot the world. The biggest, grandest surface of them all.