“The ships I see from my window are like large, languid still-lives on the bay, swaths of color sitting on an ever-changing liquid surface. Sublime moments of light appear and disappear, just as the ships themselves come and go.

Sunlight transforms the chaos of the kitchen counter, and shadows make their own pools of mystery. Walking down a familiar path, the greens in the distance glimmer brightly, as if offering a promise. My everyday world is waiting to be noticed and savored.“

Suzy Barnard was born in England in 1958, earned her BFA (Painting) in 1980 from Bristol Polytechnic (now called the University of the West of England), and moved to the Bay Area in 1981. She graduated from the MFA Painting program at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985. Still in San Francisco, Suzy lives in the Potrero Hill neighborhood with her husband and two children, and paints from her studio in the Noonan Building at Pier 70.