Susan Faust
Santa Fe, NM
On the Wind
Acrylic on canvas, framed
24” x 24”
2022
$1600
About
Susan Faust has had a lifetime love affair with making art. She has spent more than 40 years as a professional artist working in several different mediums. Susan graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1973 with a BA in Fine Art. Upon graduation, she pursued a career as a professional ceramicist and production potter. Thousands of pots later and hundreds of craft shows behind her, her real passion for drawing and painting were going unfulfilled. One day Susan walked out of her studio and never went back. She packed up and moved to Sedona Arizona in 1987, becoming the director of the ceramics department at the Sedona Art Center while continuing to study painting. Susan became a successful pastelist and plein air oil painter and has taught workshops and classes in painting around the country, Europe and Australia. She is the recipient of numerous awards in American and International exhibitions, was a featured plein air pastel artist in the PBS television series, “The Artist’s Workshop”. She was a featured artist in Pastel Artist International Magazine. Susan lives in Santa Fe.
Artist Statement
I paint from a place of mystery. My paintings are records of times and places from inner experience. They are not planned, they are not about thought or intent. They are products of the process of allowing my knowledge and experience as a painter and as a human being to express itself. This is a process of trust, of being in the process only, without concern for controlling the outcome. I seldom see where a piece is going until the final brush stroke is down. After a lifetime as an artist I see all of the work I have ever done being synthesized into a description of pure expression and memory. I love dancing with the paint. The joy for me is seeing things that I have never seen before- small passages of paint interacting with canvas and other paint and line and motion. It is the excitement and power of the experience that moves me. The process feels like music to me. My goal is to allow the painting to sing and have its own voice. This is why each piece is so unique. They are individual songs. They are not about meaning, but are about mystery. The creation of each painting has a place in my emotional world at a specific time. It is my wish that those who view my work will find something familiar or personally compelling in them–perhaps a recognition of their own personal human experience or just the pure joy of the beauty and power of this mysterious life.
Portfolio
Representation
Hat Ranch Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM
Howard Mandville Gallery,
Seattle, WA
Art from Susan Faust in other TAAC exhibitions