nted to discover a mythical Northwest Passage across the US. � :" =-- -:r ')
�Painters Oily and Suzi just had England, stuffy old England. Stifled by the mediocre local art scene, each left the country and met at Syracuse University in the late eighties. But even the American un i setting choked them, so they set out together on the road
ken by countless artists-from Bierstadt to Kerouac-before As they traveled through the US in Greyhounds and
Cadillacs, their ideas about art began to mature. "Along the way," says Oily, "we studied American
Indian philosophy and decided that our art must be 'primitive.' We really quite tired of the same old stuff." These teachings ed their adventurous spirit: painting, they decided, should be as exciting as a Navajo scouting an unknown trail.
