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Keep up-to-date on the latest from Susan Swartz Studios and the goings-on of the eponymous artist.
SAILING INTO SUMMER ON MARTHA’S VINEYARD
June 22nd is officially the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere, a time when Susan travels down from her winter studio — perched at 8,500 feet elevation in Utah’s mountains — to her sea level summer studio off the coast of New England. Auspiciously, Susan's summer in Martha's Vineyard begins this year with a match race. The most exciting part of the race? Susan's husband, a seasoned competitive sailor, will be at the helm of his TP52 racing yacht, Vesper.
THE END OF A SEASON FOR SUSAN SWARTZ
As susan swartz: seasons of the soul comes to a close in Washington, D.C., so too does the languid heat of summer. While Susan made several trips to the NMWA in D.C. to promote her current exhibition, she also spent a good portion of the summer months hard at work on the next project.
SUSAN SWARTZ REFLECTING ON THE SUMMER IN MARTHA’S VINEYARD
Where has the summer gone? In Susan’s case, it went directly onto her canvases in the form of new paintings.
SUSAN SWARTZ’S STORY
Susan Swartz creates vibrant landscape paintings from her studio in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. An official artist of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, she is well known to public and private collectors alike, and just wrapped a solo exhibition at the Springville Museum of Fine Arts in Utah. There is an underlying energy and tension to Susan’s work that hints of her complex relationship with the natural environment. “Mankind’s carelessness with the natural world has had a very personal effect on me,” she explains. “Twice I have struggled environmentally caused illnesses.”