Subway Sonnet No. 17 and 18 - Health is Wealth _ All You Need Is Love - sold to a collector in Washington DC by Susan
over to visit. I said, “Yeah, I don’t know why I’m not?” It was looking at Susan’s paintings and the materials that she was working with and combining that with my sensibility for the New York abstract expressionist artists of the fifties and sixties. Interestingly enough, Susan and I have a very similar taste in painters and they all tend to be the New York painters of that time.
CARNABY 6 by Stephen
Daks : Yes! Even the photographer Aaron Siskind was looking at the painter Franz Kline’s work; they were really good friends. Stephen : Susan’s work has a lot of graphic influences and mine of late is far more minimalist, more like a Milton Resnick or early Al Held paintings, really thick textural stuff. We bounce off each other. The paintings I’m doing now, which I have been doing for a couple of years now, are to do with rust and corrosion. Susan : I think the influence between us when we started getting into art together, he wasn’t doing his art, he wasn’t practising, but he really helped push me. Like, we would go to all the museums, all the galleries, and he really helped me grow. It’s like he knew where I was going, and I didn’t, you know? Fooling around for all those years, drawing, cutting, pasting collage, sewing. I had a whole bunch of different things, but I didn’t really have that vocabulary for painting that I needed, and he really helped introduce
I had a few shows in London and then when I moved over here continued that. Susan was painting, and really she got me back into painting again by seeing what she was doing. I remember my dad saying, “Why don’t you do some painting?” when he came
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