Susan Perkins’ work is about contemplation. The work is clean and simply presented, yet speaks loudly in a nuanced way. She uses a restrained pallet for less distraction, to create empty space, and to remain neutral allowing the viewer to bring individual significance to her works.

Her work often reflects transformation – the ever present shifting and reshaping of life. As a part of her personal meditation, Perkins regularly engages in mark making with sumi ink on kozo paper—her personal calligraphy. The meditation marks are then transformed – torn, woven, collaged, knotted or rolled into beads. Lokta paper weavings are created in a grid pattern then painted on kozo paper making a grid impression representing community.

She believes we are interlinked — if one is affected, we are all affected. She further believes our greatest strength comes from our connectivity to one another.

Perkins lives in Charleston, South Carolina. She began her professional life in the field of journalism. That enhanced her method of investigating the natural world through her oil landscapes. As a result of her training as a spiritual director, her art made way for simplicity and vulnerability – her artwork is part of our milieu encouraging conversation for change.