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Artist's Statement:
Light, shadows, patterns and textures: these are the elements of nature's beauty that have
always influenced and inspired my art.
As a long time fiber artist, I interpreted those same landscape elements into my weaving:
essentially painting with yarn. Now, my work in oil and pastel focuses again on the landscapes,
seascapes and skies that inspire my work.
Many painters prefer morning light, but for me that light is too fleeting, whereas,
late afternoon light is a lingering light that flows through the landscape highlighting
the colors, shadows, patterns and textures that I find so captivating. For me this
progression, this changing relationship between neighboring colors, and the resultant
warmth or coolness, is what results in a good painting. The challenge of capturing
the shadows against the light, the intensity of moods created by those shadows casting
patterns and textures on natural surfaces and the luminosity of reflected light results
in alluring spectrums of purple, pink, orange and a multiplicity of greens and golds in
an interplay of hues and tones. This is what drives me.
There is a rhythm to painting that each artist orchestrates for themself, a kind of
color drenched warp and weft into which the artist weaves their emotional responses to
the subject with an individual virtuosity for expressing what is seen. Dedication to
trusting my own responses and love of what I do is woven into my painting and my life.
Susan Anne Hollis, PSA
Susan has spent most of her summers since childhood
on Cape Cod. Now a professional landscape painter, the tranquil beach
scenes, sparkling waters and wind-swept dunes that have caught her artist's
eye throughout her lifetime figure prominently in her impressionistic oils
and pastels.
After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts in textile design from the Rhode
Island School of Design, Susan worked as a freelance fiber artist, but in
1990 she took up painting professionally.
A Copley Artist, Susan lives and paints full-time in her new studio on Cape Cod,
creating colorful, peaceful works that have won her Signature membership in the Pastel
Society of America and a place in such juried shows as the American Artists Professional
League (Salmagundi Club) in New York City, Signature 2003 at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts
and the Hudson River Valley Art Association in New York. In addition to the Copley Society
of Boston, Susan is a Fellow of the American Artists Professional League, a gallery artist at
the Cape Cod Art Association and the South Shore Art Association,a Signature member of the
Connecticut Pastel Society, The Pastel Painter's Society of Cape Cod and the Pastel Painters of Maine.
Susan is represented by Art House Gallery of Brewster and Gallery 333 of Falmouth.
Selected Exhibitions
Provincetown Art Association Museum
Visions & Voices of The Outer Cape
2007 |
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
National Juried Exhibition
New York City
2007 |
For Pastels Only
Chatham, MA
2004-05, 2007 |
Pastel Society of America
National Juried Exhibiton
New York City
2000-2001, 2004-2005,2007 |
Hudson Valley Art Association
National Juried Exhibition
New York City
2004-2007 |
Connecticut Pastel Society
Signature Member Show
Old Lyme, CT
2005,2007 |
Renaissance in Pastel
Annual National Exhibition
Connecticut
2004-2007
Terry Ludwig Award (2004) |
Special Places
Solo Exhibiton
Boston, MA
2006 |
21 In Truro
The Cape Cod Museum of Art
Dennis, MA
2005 |
All Cape Cod
Chatham, MA
1997-2007
Best of Show (1999)
First Place (2005) |
Pastel Painters of Maine
Pastels Only
Annual National Juried Exhibiton
2005 |
Copely Society of Boston
Copley Artist Show
2005
Spring Members Show
2004-2005 |
Galleries
- Art House Gallery, 38 Thad Ellis Road, Brewster, MA
- Gallery 333Falmouth, MA
Affiliatons
- Copley Society of Boston, 158 Newbury Street, Boston, MA - Copley Artist
- American Artist Professional League - Fellow, 47 Fifth Ave, NY
- South Shore Art Association - Gallery Artist
- Cape Cod Art Association - Gallery Artist
- Signature member in the following
- Pastel Sociey of America
- Connecticut Pastel Society
- Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod
- Pastel Painters of Maine
- 21 In Truro
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