By training a mathematician and programmer and now retired from a career with Boeing, Susan has balanced and sustained her scientific side with a love of the natural world, while her artistic side has found expression through art and photography. An avid outdoorswoman, special subjects of interest to her are birds, trees, and western landscapes. Her photographs inspire many of her paintings.
Susan works with soft pastels, enjoying the purity of their colors and taking a keen interest in techniques of application to best represent natural forms and textures. Perhaps “emblematic” is the best term for what she seeks in her attention to composition. Recently, she has been working with felt-tip pen to distill the essence of her subjects. |
Soft Pastels