Web Article

Artist Network website has an article up called "Anatomy of a Painting" that analyzes my watercolor "Elegy". Take a look by clicking here.

Vermont Land Trust Annual Report

The Vermont Land Trust chose a selection of my landscape paintings to illustrate their 2010 Annual Report. The VLT is doing great work conserving farms and forests across our state, including a 600 acre plein air painting paradise right across the road from my studio.

NRECA Mural installed

My mural for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association's Washington headquarters has been installed, and is featured in a recent issue of "Rural Electric" magazine:

"The NRECA Collection's shining jewel spans the mezzanine of the main meeting room--a forty foot mural that , according to artist Susan Abbott, captures the inspiring story of America's electric co-ops.
Abbott's vision consists of ten separate oil paintings completed in her northern Vermont studio in half-size, then digitally reproduced and enlarged before being installed on-site. Her work features a road and power line crossing regions, landscapes and communities, from coast to coast, and incorporates farms, forests, mountains, churches, a schoolhouse, and a co-op line truck, all in bright, uplifting colors.
'The concept popped into my head as soon as I saw the space where it would go", Abbott relates. 'Because rural electrification was a New Deal program, I thought about how it unified people in rural areas all across the country...My parents were big supporters of President Roosevelt, and the New Deal was a frequent topic of conversation in our house. So I understood my project from the outset.' "

Artist's Magazine Article

My painting is being featured in the January/February issue of Artist's Magazine. The article "Still Life Strategies: Five masters of the still life genre offer insights to their craft", discusses the composition of my "Dream Table" series of watercolors. Also highlighted are the still life of Jeanette Pasin Sloan and Mary Jane Waid.

Watercolor Artist Article

I've uploaded the entire recent Watercolor Artist article on my still life series "Dream Tables". If you click here, you can download all eleven pages , or read it online. It's a long interview about my painting process and inspirations, and I thought the writer, Sarah Strickley, asked very perceptive questions. Hope you enjoy it!

Vermont Life Article

Vermont Life magazine is featuring the Art of Action project in it's fall issue. Click here to take a look. (That's my hand wielding the brush at upper right--and my depleted tubes of paint.)