TRANQUIL MORNING

OIL ON CANVAS

30 X 40

$2100

Born in Oregon, Susan Comerford has been a professional artist for over30 years. She has gained knowledge both through work experience and by means of formal education, attending the University of Nevada and then the University of Oregon, from whom she earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1983. During the years that Comerford was studying art she worked in related fields. Sign painting and the large pictorials used on billboards were part of that experience, as well as logo design, theater props, and murals. At this time she is able to concentrate completely upon fine art, most particularly landscapes in oil. Her work is influenced by the Impressionists, especially Seurat and Monet.

Artist's Statement.......

My painting is Impressionistic in style. Many layered small brush strokes build up the landscape and eventually form the essence of what I am expressing. I do not attempt to be detailed, sometimes detail happens but it is not sought. A painting should express the artists feeling about the subject and that emotion will be, in a good painting, conveyed to the viewer.

Working in art has been my life. Without my artwork I would be without purpose. And that purpose is to express as well as possible the meanings that I see and feel in the visual world. I must express these things so well that the viewer will be profoundly affected and realize a deep satisfaction and gain a new knowledge of the landscape that opens the way to a deeper enjoyment of the world around us.