Candy Le Sueur

Candy Le Sueur is a painter and printmaker whose practice is rooted in an exploration of light, land, and sky. Her work often hovers at the threshold of abstraction, producing images that feel at once familiar and intangible. Some paintings unfold with a quiet, meditative slowness, offering spaces that invite stillness and reflection, a pause from the pace of daily life. Others move more quickly, marked by expressive gestures and bold marks that seek to capture the sensation of a fleeting moment. Together they form what Le Sueur describes as ethereal landscapes—records of perception that balance memory, atmosphere, and immediacy.

Her process is built on patience and accumulation. Each painting or monotype develops gradually, layer by layer, as she allows intuition to guide her decisions about color, form, and composition. Through this deliberate approach, Le Sueur creates surfaces alive with depth and movement. Foreground and background shift constantly in relation, producing a subtle push and pull that animates the picture plane. Light washes and tonal passages are set against areas of vivid color and vigorous brushwork. At times the work opens onto a sense of atmospheric perspective; at other times the space collapses into a flattened field of color and gesture. This oscillation—between quiet and intensity, between openness and compression—remains central to her practice.

Le Sueur studied fine art at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa before beginning her career in advertising. She later turned fully to her artistic practice, and after relocating to New York continued her studies at the National Academy School and in a range of printmaking studios across the city. She now lives and works in Jersey City, where she continues to expand her painting and printmaking practices.

Her work has been exhibited in South Africa, Switzerland, Germany, and the United States, with presentations at the National Academy Museum of New York, the Jersey City Museum, and international art fairs. Her paintings and monotypes are also represented in private collections in the United States and abroad, extending the reach of her practice across geographies and contexts.