Suzette Marie Martin is a mixed media painter based in New England.
Her work confronts the existential trauma of environmental crises through combining scientific data with figurative, mythological, symbolic, and archival imagery. Layers of gestural marks, translucent washes, and hand-written fragments of text illustrate both cause and consequence of ecological decline and climate disruption.
Martin’s archetypal figures embody the complex distress of a rapidly changing world. Her compositional pairing of traditional concepts about Nature with contemporary science examines how historical belief and data-based evidence inform humanity’s relationship to Anthropocene realities. Her work considers: How does the rational, analytical mind understand, and the emotional, intuitive body react?