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| Susan Reynolds |
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| Susan's most important work, shown in 1988: (left to right) Ryan (8), Kerry (14) holding Kate (3) and Erin (17) |
| When working with students Susan organizes frequent exhibit opportunities. Before a show the teen students below learn how to select & prepare art for exhibit. |
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| "Reynolds employs a set of techniques whereby she converts simple elements of color, texture and shape into complex pressure paintings that give abstract expression to natural forms and processes." |
| Having detoured via a Newcombe grant for further study in the social sciences, Susan continued her studio work throughout the 1980s and began accepting students while producing children and art. Rooted in traditional watercolor, in the mid 80s she began work on an abstract naturalistic series of paintings and monoprints which won awards in exhibit and resulted in a solo show. Following that Susan juried at the Torpedo Factory Arts Center, was featured in DC area media and became associated with a DC area gallery. In the mid 1990s Susan and her students had become instrumental in establishing a permanent installation of art in the Pediatric wing of Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Gaithersburg Maryland, where her first granddaughter was born. |
| Susan studied in the arts both in college and beyond through opportunites with the Smithsonian Institution, Moore and Montgomery Colleges, and with artists including Jackie Chalkley, Paula Winokur and Robert Bateman. After work with various media outlets and directing art for a manufacturing firm, Susan shifted her focus to painting, community work and independant projects while raising her family. |
| As the 1990s came to a close Susan had heard the call of her "Magpie gene" and began to incorporate bits of "this and that" into her work. An offshoot perhaps of this newfound obsession with sparkly things, in 2001 she began work on a series of luminous mixed media pieces. The smallest of these go beyond being exhibited in shadowbox frames to being worn as personal adornment. |
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| Print: When Fall Comes to New England copyright 2002-2005 Susan Reynolds |
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| Susan now focuses on her works on paper and in mixed media. In 2003 she began working in the small and fun format of artistamp design. Stamps from her imaginary Empire of Ephemeria have attracted collectors of all ages from around the world. She also began making reproduction of her work more widely available in the form of prints and on bags, tiles and other everyday art items. In 2004 Susan's work was exhibited at galleries and institutions including at the University of North Carolina. Seven of Susan's mixed media pieces were published in just one issue of the paper-arts magazine Somerset Studios in 2004. Because she feels that personal relationships are a vital part of her work, Susan's art pieces are primarily sold in small venues, through her Online Gallery and from her studio. |
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