Susan Skilling - Wanderings

We are pleased to announce our fourth one-person exhibition by Seattle artist, Susan Skilling. Skilling is the kind of artist who is led by her inner voice and not by the dictates of fashion or the marketplace. Nonetheless, her work has maintained contemporary concerns in painting.

Susan Skilling continues her spare and elegant meditations on nature and landscape in w a t e r c o l o r a n d g o u a c h e paintings on paper. An organic sensitivity pervades the formal choices made by the artist. Along with artists like Morris Graves or Anne Appleby, Skilling’s choices of imagery, color and content lead her in the pursuit of the sublime. Painting with mineral based paint, some of it handmade by the artist, Skilling creates a dense layering of subtly nuanced color over a rich handmade paper surface. Her palette is somber and modest, with occasional highlights of brilliant, saturated color revealing the artist’s intimate engagement with her materials.

BIOGRAPHY
Susan Skilling received her MFA from the University of Washington. She has exhibited in the Northwest since 1977. Skilling’s work has been collected by the City of Seattle, City Light Collection; Boeing Corporation, Chicago; Wild Ginger Restaurant, Seattle; and Microsoft Art Collection. She has been included in exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum; Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner; and the Bellevue Arts Museum. Skilling lives and works in Seattle, WA.