Expressionist painter Sylvia Snowden: ‘White people will show some Black art … then it wears off’

Over a six-decade career the American artist has worked ‘twice as hard’ to bring her vivid, colourful figures to an audience. On the eve of her first major UK show, she talks race, representation and the human spirit that unites usSylvia Snowden’s monumental expressionistic paintings hit you in the gut. Bodies arch, hunch and contort, emanating suffering, fear, joy and aspiration. But what really holds your gaze, even more than their misshapen, hyperextended forms painted in go