Rich swaths of color flow together like fertile alluvial floodplains in the work of British artist Su Goddard. She found in abstraction the means to express certain elements of life’s journey and the human condition, speaking through amorphous fields of radiant color. Her paintings create a direct exchange between artwork and audience, allowing a unique message to be gathered from the unfolding visual harmonies. The poured paint methods of Helen Frankenthaler have had a palpable influence in Goddard’s work, as well as the art of ancient Egypt and the cave paintings in Lascaux. Nature and the elements also play a central role in her process. “My watercolours have a species of originality,” Goddard explains. “Their evolution shares, very often, in those natural processes all around us which are dependent on the activity of water.”

Su Goddard attended the Oxford School of Art during the vibrant creative atmosphere of the 1960s. She has worked as an interior decorator and illustrator, dividing her time between residences in the South West of France and Oxford, England.