Susan Jane Smith: Exploring Materiality and Perception Through Abstract Collage Susan Jane Smith, born in West Sussex, England in 1979, is a New York-based artist whose distinctive approach to visual art centers on the interplay between materiality and perception. While her athletic past as an international show jumper might seem incongruous with her current artistic pursuits, it instilled within her a disciplined eye for form and spatial relationships—qualities that profoundly inform her captivating abstract paintings and collages. Smith’s artistic journey began with a fascination for capt…