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About Susan

“I paint because I have always wanted to push what I see in my mind’s eye through my hand onto a waiting surface. For me, painting is an act of joining the interior world to the one I see outside of myself, creating an emotional parallel to the natural world around me. My works are inspired by the landscape on Vancouver Island, and from travels throughout the coast of British Columbia, into the Great Bear Rainforest, to the National Grasslands of the prairies and to the Maritimes and the Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador."

Susan is a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and lives on Vancouver Island in Cowichan Bay. She has been painting for the past 18 years and studied oil painting under the tutelage of a painter in the tradition of the old masters. In recent years, she studied acrylics in the style of the abstract expressionists. She paints representative, abstract expression and contemporary modern styles in oils, acrylics and oil and cold wax.

Exhibitions and Awards

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2019 Juried Exhibition Juror’s Choice Award, NFCA annual juried fine arts show
2019 Juried Exhibition Nanaimo Fine Art Show, Federation of Canadian Artists, Nanaimo, BC
2019 Exhibition Wild Wings Nature and Art Festival annual art exhibition. Duncan, BC
2018 Public Spaces Unsworth Vineyards, Cowichan Valley, BC
2015 Public Spaces “Eat Local, Read Local” Author and Chefs Bill Jones and Don Genova, Cobble Hill, BC
2014/15 Public Spaces “Damn Fine Dinner” Drumroaster Coffee, Deerholme Farm (Bill Jones)
2014 Juried Exhibition “Oil and Water” at Gallery 1710, Tsawwassen, BC
2014 Solo Exhibition “Art on the Walls,” The Old Firehouse Wine and Cocktail Bar, Duncan, BC
2013 Solo Exhibition “First Night,” The Old Firehouse Wine and Cocktail Bar, Duncan, BC
2013 Juried Exhibition “Unscripted,” Old Schoolhouse Arts Centre, Qualicum Beach, BC
2012 Exhibition “Studio, The Abstract Experience,” North Vancouver, BC