susan kraut
still life painting, as described by norman bryson in his book looking at the overlooked,
“...lavishes attention on those things normally overlooked as mundane and unimportant,”
and has the effect for the viewer of “transfiguring the commonplace.”
my work of the past several years has focused on ordinary, everyday objects, casually
placed on tables or windowsills, illuminated by a particular moment of daylight, often the
warm intensity of late afternoon sunlight. my paintings allude to a moment of stillness and
reflection, a memory of a small piece of the natural world frozen in time.

maine still life II 24 x 28