Susi Kramer developed her unique visual vocabulary of simplistic dots, spirals, colored spots, small figures, crowns, and angels that − much like pictograms − recur again and again in purely monochromatic, undiluted colors. She uses each motif individually, or combines them as points of color in wholly luminous paintings. Her palette not only recalls the French Mediterranean coast with its blue and turquoise tones of sky and sea, but also the orange and reds of the soil and clear summer colors in Southern France that have drawn generations of artists before her. It’s no surprise to find that Susi Kramer has a studio in a tower high above Cannes, and draws inspiration from those surroundings.