A painting of three reddish/pink geraniums on a gray/green background.

Geraniums

"The last minute addition to pink paint is how the painting got its name."

The Mystery of the Trespassing Flamingo

Abstract, minimilist geometric and line forms

Guatape

A meandering river through a lush green landscape vanishing into a marsh in the distance. 

River Running

A portrait of a dog investigating his world.

Untitled

A mixed media collage in jewel tones of acrylic paint and stamped and print papers.  Two large orange butterflies fly above green foliage and variegated deep pink flowers.

Butterfly Garden

A green turtle sunning himself on a log in a blue lake.

Sunny Day (The Shadows Run Deep)

As much of nudes and scenery as is humanly possible please.

In The Garden

An Italian farm perched on top of a hill with glowing gold of the wheat fields and purple mountains in the distance. 

Hill Top Farm in Tuscany 

Reverie is a vivid, dreamlike representation of a person sitting under a large tree at night with a full moon in the sky. The branches of the tree enfold themselves to form a heart shape and an aura expresses the spiritual energy emmanating from the living thing itself. I used blues and red purples to create an introspective mood.

Reverie

My nephew kayaking on the lake on a beautiful day.

Exhilaration

A painting of a young girl walking under a waterfall of surrounded by trees.  Blues and black and greens and white.

Waterfall

A close up of peony in whites, violets, blues and yellows

Square Peony

A painting of a swan using only a fan-brush with grey, white, pink and touches of gold. 

Fan Brush Fun

A non objective abstract containing circles and various linear marks in black, white and shades of olive green. 

Edith

Raw Onion

Ten alternating paint marks of lavender, russet, and blue are dripping down the canvas. Each mark has been transformed into the body of a person of varying age, gender, and ethnicity, standing shoulder to shoulder. The drips down the canvas are their legs and reflections.

 a painting of a person in a seed cap with religious embroidery of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There is a gold halo surrounding the portrait head.

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A 3-dimensional art piece using pouring medium mixed with black, white and gold acrylic paint over a mask creating a face emerging from a dark oily pool. 

Mask

"A meditative painting of a woman's face with colorful images of flowers, bees, DNA strands, lemons, stars, and a healing heart surrounding her image.

Healing

The discolored wolf with small beady black eyes making the wolf look tired and weary, and the background empty showing a lack of hope. 

Into my eyes 

This painting is based on the ancient Celtic church door guardians that portray the prehistory carvings of the cranky Earth mother called the Sheila-na-gig. This stylized Sheila is a black, red and yellow line on white painted canvas depicted with basic circles, triangles, nashing teeth, and huge feet.

Sheila-na-gig #4

Fungi grows on trees in colorful arcs of orange, sienna and blue. These arcs of living fungus are shown with dead leaves because part of their benefit is in how they decompose and create new life. Besides being beautiful, they are living organisms that support the ecosystem of the entire planet.   

Fungus Form 1

From The Backyard Series.  Features trees, plants, a pair of hanging baskets of impatiens and sunlight and shadows.

Light and Shadows

An abstract painting containing contrasting geometric shapes and textured surfaces. The colors are primarily blue, black, gray, green with touches of orange.

Taken Over

A happy pink flower with orange seeds blowing in the wind.

Flowers at Papa and Gigi's House

An abstract painting of active square rectilinear forms in bright red, blue, lime green, pink, grey, black and white that fills the canvas..

A Sea of Squares

A painting of four teddy bears, two of them handmade, that were my childhood best friends, on a lilac-colored background

Old Friends

A painting of my friend Frank in New York City's Central Park, after a day of art museum visits. The sun is shining and the water in the reservoir behind him is sparkling. It is truly Frank's "Happy Place".

Frank's Happy Place

An abstract painting of a melting iceberg surrounded by water and land. You can begin to see its hidden mass below the surface.

Geraniums, 2020

Susan Gibbons