Art by Susan Sumner
Original watercolors and oils
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About Me

 

After a career as a school social worker, I returned to my first love – painting. I sometimes use oil or pastel but watercolors have captured my heart because their fluidity and luminosity are ideal for impressionistic studies of flowers and soft landscapes.

 painting of me by Carol Manochio

 

My oils and watercolors have won awards and are in collections throughout the United States.  I have taught watercolor at Warren County College in their adult classes.

 

Education:

* MSW from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio

* New York Academy of Figurative Art - workshops in life drawing

*  Art Student’s League, NYC

* Centenary College – painting, life drawing

* New York Studio School – Drawing marathon

*  Workshops with Arne Westerman, Judi Betts, Annette Hanna, Tim Gaydos, Janet Rogers, Jeanne Carbonetti

* Workshops in Norway, Austria, Italy, Spain and Portugal

 

Galleries I have shown in:

* Arts off Main, Hackettstown, NJ (solo show July 2008)

* Solaris Gallery, Califon, NJ
*  Le Reve, Chester, NJ

*   Connexions, Easton, PA

* Louisa Melrose, Frenchtown, NJ

              

 

 

 

 

In the winter I paint in the studio, often from imagination.

 

Summer finds me outside, painting scenes of rural northwest New Jersey with the New Jersey En Plein Air painters or on painting trips to Europe.

 

I find painting on location meditative and love the sounds feel, and smells. Each painting is unique as I seldom paint the same scene twice and the season, sunlight and my mood are always changing. 

 

 

 Photo by Jinnie May.

Here, I'm painting in Italy - having a wonderful time allthough the canvas bag (borrowed from a friend) may never be the same.

 

 

Thank you for your interest.

 

You can reach me at SusanKSumner@aol.com.