Next Meeting:
Friday, September 26, 2008, 10:30am
Guest artist: Susanne Belcher
Susanne Belcher, a native Californian and award-winning artist, found her artistic passion over seventeen years ago painting bold and colorful abstract southwest landscapes in oil and watercolor. Although she still considers herself a painter, she now incorporates paint with collage, photography, printmaking and more recently, transparency film. Susanne’s current body of work provides a rich backdrop for her strong graphic skills, versatility and love of experimentation. Using repetitious images as personal symbols, architectural elements (stairways, windows, doorways/openings), and her shadow along with nature subjects, she creates her own unique allegorical architecture - sophisticated, intricate, complex, often three-dimensional, surreal and mysterious.
In her latest series, Susanne continues to play with the idea of choices and their consequences – man in relationship to nature and spirituality, transitions from darkness to light. The observer as well as the participant on a journey through the urban landscapes of her subconscious, she offers dimensional layers of possibilities for the viewer. It has been said that her transparency work is like looking at a video or hologram, revealing hidden images, non-static, giving one the illusion of movement and transformation.
Susanne, a former health care professional, has a doctorate in Psychology, is an ardent nature lover, and is an active member of Women Painters West, Collage Artists of America, The Fine Arts Club of Pasadena and Valley Watercolor Society. Her work has been exhibited in Germany, shown in several galleries and venues throughout Southern California, and is held in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Europe. She was a founding partner, featured and represented artist of the former Abbot Kinney Art Gallery (Venice, CA).
See more images on Susanne's website at susannebelcher.com, and abbotkinneyartgallery.com (a virtual gallery).