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 - 2010

June 8 - 27, FOR PASTELS ONLY - Cape Cod Cultural Center , So. Yarmouth, MA

June 13 - August 1, GLORIES OF THE GARDEN - Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA

June 23 - July 18, EXHIBITION AT GALLERY - 333 N. Falmouth, MA

August 7 - September 3, PASTELS BY INVITATION - Chatham Creative Arts Center, Chathem, MA

August 18 - 25, PASTEL PAINTERS OF MAINE - Members show at Allen David Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, ME

August 13 - September 18, SIGNATURE MEMBERS SHOW - The Connecticut Pastel Society, at the Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT

Galleries

• Allen David Gallery of Boothbay Harbor, Maine
• European Treasures of Nantucket, MA
• Art House Gallery, 38 Thad Ellis Road, Brewster, MA
• Gallery 333Falmouth, MA
  

Selected Exhibitions:

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
• Provincetown Art Association Museum
  Visions & Voices of The Outer Cape -2007
• The Truro Historical Society Museum - 08 and 09