About me

Artist Statement – Sue Rebouças / Suelene R.

 I’m a self-taught artist guided not by formal training but by intuition, emotion, and memory. My work unfolds through the tactile spirit of salvaged surfaces and traditional canvas alike—each one a space for instinctive dialogue with rhythm, color, and recollection. Whether it’s the gesture of a petal or the shadow of a distant place, I respond to what stirs within.

Nature often makes her way into my work—flowers blooming like thoughts, each one holding time, feeling, and story. I let materials speak first, inviting oil, acrylics, or pencil to follow. Color emerges like memory—sometimes soft, sometimes bold.

My art is a kind of personal geography. Places I’ve walked and emotions I’ve felt return transformed through my lens. A friend once called it O Mundo Maravilhoso da Sú—the wonderland of Su—a magical realm shaped by how I perceive the world: poetic, vivid, emotional, layered, and uniquely enchanted.

Each piece is a reclamation of memory, voice, and landscape—internal and external. I seek silence between forms and build dimensionality where abstraction and narrative meet. Whether painted on forgotten wood or fresh linen, I honor what was, what remains, and what still waits to be discovered.