Parklane Gallery Artists

Susanne Werner

artist Water media allows me to express the imagery I see and feel in nature. My objective is to put on canvas or paper the beauty I see in nature, translating, abstracting and adding my inner feelings. I have eliminated any attempts at literal representation. Experimentation with all media and discovering the interaction is an important focus. Like a jazz musician I interpret, improvise, embellish and spontaneously make marks on canvas or paper. Acrylic paints combined with collage fascinate me. The results are interesting and have a quality of three-dimensionality that I find very pleasing. New series done in this manner are titled “Abstractions from Nature”, “Earth Poems”, “Window Series” and “Grecian Diary”.

‘Making art is feeling and seeing what’s around you.’ Born and educated in Germany, I began painting with watercolors in High School, adopting other media in later years. My informal art education includes courses and workshops at the Boston Museum of Fine Art School, the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln (MA), and Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Canada. In addition I have attended national and international workshops and classes in various media. I returned to watercolors in early 1995. More recently I have switched to acrylics and collage.

I have been juried into a number of national shows. I am a juried member of Women Painters of Washington, a member of the Northwest Watercolor Society, Eastside Fine Art Association, and Mercer Island Visual Art League.

I have had solo exhibitions at the Concord Cooperative Bank, Concord MA, Bellevue WA City Hall, Bellevue Public Library, and have been part of Group shows including the Seattle Art Museum Volunteer show, Westwind Gallery, Casper WY, the Period Gallery, Lincoln NE, Breckenridge Fine Arts Center TX, Punta Gorda FL Art Association, Louisiana Art & Artists Guild. I have been “Featured Artist” in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006 at Parklane Gallery, Kirkland WA.