My style is expressive abstraction and what sets it apart from others is that I strive to suggest.  I don’t tell the whole story.  I leave it open-ended so you can connect with my paintings on a level that is meaningful to you.  I’m delighted and inspired by the personal stories that people attach to my paintings. 

In addition to painting, I am also a poet. Many of my poems are inspired by my paintings and often developed as I paint. My creative process of representing a feeling or mood in visual images and in rhyming words is very similar.

Bio

Contemporary artist Susan Lackey’s paintings explore the complex moods and emotions of modern life. By balancing color, shape, and light, she moves past strict realism to capture the raw expression of her subjects and abstractions. Her highly textural process involves layering translucent acrylics with heavy impasto, collage, and often embedded objects. Lackey holds an art degree from East Carolina University and has earned two prestigious North Carolina Arts Council grants. She is a frequent guest speaker whose award-winning work has been represented by prominent galleries in the greater Charlotte area. Her art has been accepted into numerous national, state, and local juried exhibitions.