Susan Swartz illuminates the restorative world of natural wonders.

A year in the life of Park City’s Susan Swartz, celebrating achievements in art, film, and activism.

Tell us what you do and your beginnings. I am an American painter working with mixed media. I have always been interested in art. When a high school teacher recognized that I had artistic ability he encouraged me to pursue it. Once I entered college, I knew that I wanted to make a career out of it.

A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound - Susan Swartz’s “Contemplation Sextet Series” featured on the cover

Artist Susan Swartz on how her personal health issues inform her work, and why the natural world is worth protecting. Swartz’s multidisciplinary work and practice engages with themes of the environment, healing, and finding balance.

Sotheby’s is auctioning off a studio visit with David Hockney and a sitting with Annie Leibovitz for charity. All proceeds will benefit Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado’s conservation nonprofit, Instituto Terra. The event will also include a sale of artworks centered loosely around Earth’s natural treasures, including an abstract acrylic floral painting by Susan Swartz.

A recent collaboration between Doyle Sails and the internationally renowned painter Susan Swartz highlighted a case where modern science and technology are able to turn sails into an artist’s canvas—with no compromise in performance.

Susan Swartz paints for joy. After battling two chronic environmentally-linked illnesses, Susan is often asked why she doesn’t create work around themes of nature’s fragility or its demise. She leans toward the light rather than the darkness. She finds the beauty in life and passes it along in her work.

After a four-year world tour, "Arrival" is on view in in her home city for the first time.

While her work has reached a global audience, Susan’s local collectors find a point of connection to her genuine reverence for nature and the emotion she pours into each work. Collectors have remarked on her distinct approach and how they want to spend a lifetime surrounded with the passion and energy each painting embodies.  

By Artnet Gallery Network

“[W]hile you’re waiting for Cupid’s arrow to strike, we’ve picked out a few of our favorites artworks in the Artnet Gallery Network that are perfect for Valentine’s Day.”

By A. Scott Anderson

“Zions Bank is supporting a project to celebrate the legacies and extraordinary contributions of Utah women, past and present, in politics, religion, education, government, business and nonprofits. We commissioned the famed artist Jann Haworth to produce a mural featuring more than 250 Utah women, representing historical figures, famous individuals, and ordinary and currently living women.”

By Carolyn Murray

“Gallery owner and artist Susan Swartz brings a social justice art exhibit to her Main Street gallery. The exhibit is in conjunction with the premier of a film about an art collector committed to social justice reform.”

By Deanna Rhodes

“Susan Swartz, an artist and activist, lives both seaside in Martha’s Vineyard and immersed in the Wasatch Mountains in Park City. The underlying energy and tension in Susan Swartz’s work hint at her complex relationship with the natural world.”

By Steve Phillips

“Susan Swartz is a prolific Park City-based artist whose work is inspired by the intersection of art, nature and spirituality. “Park City is my home base and its mountain setting has always been one of my greatest sources of inspiration.””

By Angela Burrows

“A great teacher can change everything. One such teacher at Baldwin High School did exactly that for Susan Swartz by recognizing and encouraging her artistic talent early on. Upon graduation, he strongly encouraged her parents to send her to study art at his alma mater, what was then Edinboro State College. Following that advice helped to put Swartz on a trajectory that has taken her from Baldwin to Budapest to Beijing, where she has showcased her art to a worldwide audience.”

Text by Inês Mendes & Photography by Philippe Simões

Melides Art is a place that fills our soul. It is made of nature and people, of Art and artists, a perfect setting and a constant search for the unknown. It is a meeting place and initiation place, a place of opportunity to meet people, to create and illustrate what has already been done.

Susan Swartz Studios is pleased to announce the upcoming dedication of Swartz’s latest commission, Zion’s Glow, a 72×72” acrylic on linen painting. Commissioned by Zions Bank, this large-scale painting is a gift to Zion National Park in honor of its Centennial year.

By Sean Means

At a VIP dinner before the concert, Park City artist Susan Swartz will present a new 6-foot-square acrylic-on-linen painting, “Zion’s Glow,” commissioned by Zions Bank. The work by the internationally known painter will eventually hang at the park.

By Laura Jackson

Attracting patrons from Park City and around the world, Susan Swartz’s abstract landscapes give viewers an inside look into how the splendor of the natural world inspires her expressive, dynamic works of art.