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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.
Upcoming Events - 2011
February 4 - 28, FLOWERING IN FEBRUARY - Cape Cod Cultural Center - Juried
March 20 - April 1, ANNUAL MEMBERS SHOW - Catherine Lorilard Wolfe Art Club, New York
April 29 - June 8, PASTEL INVITATIONAL - Marion Art Center, Marion MA
June 17 - July 16, PASTEL PAINTERS OF MAINE - 12th Internatioinal Juried Exhibition, "Pastels Only" - Heartwood College - Kennebunk, Maine
June 29 - August 8 - 21 IN TRURO: OUTERMOST EMBRACE - Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
August 6 - September 6 - PASTEL INVITATIONAL - Chatham Creative Art
August 20 - 21 - 21 IN TRURO COLLECTION 2011 - Auction
Galleries
- Gallery Antonia, Chatham, MA
- Allen David Gallery of Boothbay Harbor, Maine
- Gallery 333Falmouth, MA
Selected Exhibitions:
| 2010 |
For Pastels Only, Cape Cod Cultural Center, So. Yarmouth, MA.
Between Sea and Sky, 21 In Truro, Cape Cod Cultural Center, So. Yarmouth, MA
Glories Of The Garden, Highfield Hall, Falmouth,MA
Pastel by Invitation, Chatham Creative Arts Center, Chatham MA
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| 2009 |
Renaissance in Pastel, (Juried), 16th National Exhibition, Mattuck Museum, Waterbury,CT
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club (Juried), 113th National Arts Club, NY, NY
Signature 2009, (Juried), Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art, Dennis, MA
All Cape Cod,(Juried), Chatham Creative Art Center, Chatham MA
Shimmer (Juried), Copley Society of Boston Artist Member summer show, Boston, MA
Pastel Invitational, Chatham Creative Art Center, Chatham, MA
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| 2008 |
Renaissance in Pastel, (Juried), 15th National Exhibition, West Hartford Art League, CT
Pastel Society of America, (36th Annual Juried), National Arts Club, NY, NY
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club , (Juried), 112th National Arts Club, NY, NY
M Rendi Award
For Pastels Only, Chatham Creative Art Center, Chatham, MA
All Cape Cod,(Juried), Chatham Creative Art Center, Chatham MA - First Place
Fascinating Rhythms, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
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| 2007 |
Pastel Society of America, (35th Annual Juried), National Arts Club, NY, NY
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, (Juried), 111th National Arts Club, NY, NY
For Pastels Only, Chatham Creative Art Center, Chatham, MA
All Cape Cod, (Juried), Chatham Creative Art Center, Chatham MA
Visions & Voices of the Outer Cape, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA
Hudson Valley Art Assoc. 73rd Exhibition, (Juried), Hasting-On-Hudson, NY
Renaissance in Pastel,(Juried), 14th National Exhibition, Slater Museum, CT
Connecticut Pastel Society, Signature Member Show, Old Lyme, CT |
Affiliatons
- Copley Society of Boston, 158 Newbury Street, Boston, MA - Copley Artist
- American Artist Professional League - Fellow, 47 Fifth Ave, NY
- 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
- Provincetown Art Association Museum
Visions & Voices of The Outer Cape -2007
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