Born in 1959, Sue grew up in the coastal town of Scituate, Mass. She graduated in 1981 from Boston University with a BFA in painting where she pursued a classical course of study with favorite teachers John Wilson, George Rose and Reed Kay. ‘I went to BU because above all I wanted to learn how to draw.”
She cites her influences as William Merrit Chase, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness, Richard Diebenkorn, Wolf Kahn and Edouard Manet. “All these painters are colorists and they work at making paint become the subject and not vice versa. My goal is to make paintings that exist on two levels. I am interested in creating space and light, but I want the viewer to be aware of the surface of the painting, too. With the open views on the South Shore as a subject, I strive to show the interconnectedness of nature—how water meets marsh and marsh meets sky and sky receives light and yet they are all part of a whole. The seasonal changeability of the colors: cool grays in winter, yellow-greens in spring & summer and the warm siennas in fall fuel my imagination. I aim for strong drawing and pattern, rich color and decisive brush strokes. A good painting, like a good poem, contains only the essence, and it stays with you. Teaching oil painting at the North River Arts Society in Marshfield, and at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset has taught me the importance of that idea.”
On November 18, 2005, she had a solo show at the South Street Gallery. See the images 'here'.
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