Collections: Spring Revival

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Spring is finally here! And with the new season comes an abundance of colourful new artwork that are sure to bring the soft blooming pastels, as well as the more vibrant splashes of nature back into your lives.

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Spring Thaw
Nancy Lindsay

Oil on paper
Art dimensions: 40" x 32"
$1,200

New Spring Brooch 8
Satomi Kawai

Engraved/oxidized copper, resin, pigment, sterling silver, stainless steel wire
$100

Morel Mushroom
Neal Deaton

Metal sculpture
Art dimensions: 5.5" x 5" x 4"
$600

untitled 03-1909
Thérèse Murdza

Mixed media on canvas
Art dimensions: 20" x 16"
$825

Earrings
Hoops 4
BabyGrapes Designs

Porcelain, sterling silver
$60

Speckled Yellow Red Paperweight
Karg Art Glass

Blown glass
Art dimensions: 3" round
$120

Glimpse of Nature
Mary Zeran

Acrylic, duralar on paper
Art dimensions: 30" x 22"
$1,150 Framed

April Prairie
Elizabeth Miller

Watercolour on paper
Art dimensions: 22.25" x 30"
$400

Spring Flow
Marcia Wegman

Acrylic on yupo
Art dimensions: 10" x 10"
$275 Panel

Soft Series 3
Sharon Burns-Knutson

Pastel on paper
Art dimensions: 6.5" x 4.5"
$75 Matted

Pendant 90
Kimberlee Rocca

Foil on aluminum
$85

Iowa Spring
Ellen Wagener

Pastel on paper
Art dimensions: 17.5" x 18.25"
$1,950

Spring and Summer
Satomi Kawai

Monoprint on kozo paper
Art dimensions: 22" x 30"
$925 Framed

Cacoon
Ellen Kleckner

Collage, shellacked paper
Art dimensions: 14" x 7"
$175 Framed

Buttermint Studs
Jillian-Moore

Wood, found/altered acrylic, paint, pigment, stainless steel
$225

Spring Reflections
Marty Mitchell

Pastel on paper
Art dimensions: 10.5" x 10.5"
$600 Framed

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I see my work as a meditation, drawing on memories, questions, and attempts to settle my ever-shifting perceptions. My goal is to be in the studio experience and go beyond the merely scenic aspect of landscape, toward a larger goal of nuanced visual metaphor.

Drawing allows for multi-layered interpretations of the visual, and much re-visioning. The process engages all my senses and I feel that I was made for this practice. When I’m working I linger with an awareness of nature as a living presence, embodying source, refuge, and great unknown. The larger theme of landscape provides many points of departure and return."

Tall Grass, Deep Shadows

Pastel on paper
Art dimensions: 7.5" x 10.5"
$575 Framed

Forest Bathing, Big Grove, Burr Oak Trust

Pastel on paper
Art dimensions: 23.25" x 17.25"
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Lincoln Highway Series, Prairie & Sky

Pastel on paper
Art dimensions: 23.5" x 17.5"
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Lincoln Highway Series #3 (Respiration)

Pastel on paper
Art dimensions: 23.5" x 17.5"
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Through drawing and painting within the open-ended themes of landscape I cultivate awareness of my own inner wildness, as it echoes the wider world. The fragile and fleeting, as well as enduring qualities I find in nature are likewise within me. Not separate but interconnected, like past and present, figure and ground.

Untitled #2

Pastel on paper
Art dimensions: 18" x 24"
$850 Framed

Tigerlily Suite #3

Pastel on paper
Art dimensions: 23.25" x 17.5"
SOLD

Blue Morning, Lake Macbride

Pastel on paper
Art dimensions: 10.5" x 8"
$575 Framed

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Susan was born and raised in rural eastern Missouri.  She received her BFA in drawing from Webster University in St. Louis, her MA in drawing and MFA in painting from the University of Iowa.  Susan has shown in venues throughout the Midwest and eastern United States.  Her work focuses on landscape themes encountered in the local environment.


Susan has taught at the University of Northern Iowa, Kirkwood Community College (Iowa City Campus), and as a visitor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.  She is the Gallery Coordinator and a Lecturer at Cornell College Department of Art in Mount Vernon, IA, since February 2000.


Susan’s work can be seen at the Guilded Pear Gallery in Cedar Rapids, IA, Quad City Arts in Rock Island, IL, Mount Vernon Creates and First Brick Gallery in Mount Vernon, IA.  She lives in Mount Vernon with her husband, Jeff Martin, a golden retriever named Thunder and Toby the cat.