One of the joys of living in Susan’s hometown of Park City, Utah is experiencing the energy of the annual Sundance Film Festival here each January. “For me, watching these films is like going to graduate school, ” explains Susan, “learning about important subjects that I often never even knew existed before.”

For a third season, Susan Swartz will be exhibiting in Palm Beach with Michael James Fine Arts. This year Michael James will be featuring Swartz’s most recent paintings at the American International Fine Arts Fair, February 5 – 10, 2013 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. Please email info@susanswartz.com for complimentary tickets.

Writer Sallie Brady included Susan Swartz BREATH OF NATURE show at Belgravia gallery in her PEAK FOLIAGE art world news article in November issue of ART & ANTIQUES – one of only two London exhibitions mentioned!

As women step into global leadership roles in government and business, they have also become driving forces in addressing humanitarian issues, particularly those pertaining to women and children around the world.

Susan Swartz is honored to be featured in the November 2012 edition of The Mayfair Resident!

After months of planning and preparations, Susan’s latest exhibition, BREATH OF NATURE, opens this week at London’s Belgravia Gallery. Last night, kicking off a week of exhibition events, renowned British writer Gillian Tett hosted the opening celebration. Tett has won numerous awards for her impactful journalism at the Financial Times, and Susan is proud to call her a longtime friend.

Enjoy a coffee and conversation with Susan Swartz at her exhibition, BREATH OF NATURE. Swartz is an American landscape artist and environmental campaigner whose work probes the intersection between devout spirituality and a reverance for nature. Her art is part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Swartz is also an impassioned environmental activist and educator who has worked with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Jane Goodall in their efforts to shed light on environmental issues.

The life and work of Susan Swartz, featured in the November 2012 edition of The American.

So begins The Field Magazine feature on Susan’s Belgravia exhibition, Brush Off. Read it now! And visit Belgravia Gallery on Albemarle Street in London W1 to see the beauty… and perhaps the darkness? You decide!

I have long been fascinated by the powerful connection between art and the environment — both define us as a people. Standing in a riverbed deep within the walls of a canyon or at the helm of a boat contemplating the vastness of our oceans, I try to imagine how an artist chooses color and finds form, and I am humbled. The outer world of nature and the interpretive world of art both insist that we transcend our narrow self-interest and see beyond what is right in front of us. Artists seek universal truths and help us form a community that responds to these truths and not to rhetoric or partisanship. The natural world reminds us how we are all connected, not by geography, but by river tributaries and wind patterns and fault lines. We depend on each other and also depend on the stewardship of the natural world. For it provides our lifeblood: clean air and water.

Just like Susan, Mary Oliver has dedicated most of her career to the environment. The American poet and recipient of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize turns towards nature for inspiration and describes the sense of wonder it instills in her. “When it’s over,” she says, “I want to say: all my life / I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.” (When Death Comes from New and Selected Poems (1992))

Susan’s solo exhibition, BREATH OF NATURE, has just opened at London’s Belgravia Gallery. The paintings included in the show mark a turning point in Susan’s artistic vision towards an increasingly abstract—and increasingly urgent yet hopeful — painting style. Perhaps no painting illustrates this change more clearly than the title work Breathless.

For the first time in Utah, legendary glass artist, Dale Chihuly will exhibit a famous and sought-after collection, Chihuly Venetians, at the Kimball Art Center in Park City. On October 8th, the Kimball Art Talk series will features a discussion led by the team responsible for installing all glass works by Chihuly. Denny Park Fine Arts (DPFA), a Seattle based company, is the only company authorized by the Chihuly Studio to provide cleaning, de-installation, packing, moving and storage of Chihuly artwork. The Chihuly exhibit will run October 13, 2012 through January 6, 2013 in the Main Gallery at the Kimball Art Center.

If the history of the Earth were laid out on a clock, we humans would not appear until a minute before midnight as the writer Carl Sagan so aptly analogized in Cosmos. Despite our brevity on this planet, the impact of humankind has been disproportionately profound.

Carl Sandburg on the transient beauty of nature.

Susan Swartz is a talented American painter of nature. What, I ask challengingly, is left to say about landscape in the 21st century? Landscape is not dead as an art subject in 2012. But it is surely close to exhausted. Mere imitation of nature went over to the camera around 1860. Paint has continued to imagine, fantasise and brilliantly lie--but landscape? The sublime, the picturesque, Impressionism, Expressionism, Romanticism, flattened perspectives, three dimensions, Turner, Monet, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Kandinsky, Richter, Hockney and Glenn Brown, it has all been done — hasn’t it?

As the heat of summer recedes into our skin and the last tomatoes wither on the vine, Susan looks forward to the approaching autumnal equinox. September 22 marks not only the first day of autumn, but also the point in the year when night and day are of equal length, the midpoint between the brightness of summer and the darkness of winter.

“A Shared Passion for Environmental Campaigning” brings Artist Susan Swartz and environmental leaders Louie Psihoyos and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. together at Belgravia Gallery in London November 7th.

BREATH OF NATURE show of paintings by American Painter and Environmental Campaigner Susan Swartz on view at Belgravia Gallery October 22 - November 24

One of Susan’s most rewarding efforts is the Christian Center of Park City (CCPC), which she and her husband, Jim, co-founded over 12 years ago. An inter-denominational community organization based in Susan’s home community of Park City, Utah, the CCPC aims to meet people at their point of need as an expression of God’s love.