Susan Brewster Charles b.1959
BFA Painting Boston University 1981
The northeast coast of the Atlantic is my subject. Wanting to learn to how to draw, I went to BUs College of Fine Arts, where teachers focused on observation skills mastered in four intense years of figure drawing and painting. Bruegel, Inness, Klimt, Porter, Thomson and Welliver are some of my favorite artists. Paintings exist in many dimensions;They depict three dimensions of light and space with two dimensions of color, they express the fourth dimension of time in their marks and they reveal metaphysical dimensions of thought and emotion. Finding the intersection between these ways of perceiving is my goal. I work to express the long lines of landscape space, light and air connecting everything and the quiet profundity of nature. A good painting contains only the essentials and it stays with you like a hummable melody. I aim for that. www.suecharlesstudio.com
Representation
2015 - present Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2012 - present Powers Gallery, Acton MA
2009 - present Islesford Artists Gallery, Islesford (Little Cranberry Island) ME
2004 - 2020 South Street Gallery, Hingham, MA (closed 2020)
Awards, Residency
2018 Artist-in-Residence, Acdadia National Park
2017 First Place Oil Painting, Newburyport Art Association Regional Show
2016 First Place Oil Painting, Newburyport Art Association Regional Show, Karen Haas, Curator, MFA
2014 Honorable Mention Oil Painting - Newburyport Art Association, Peter Alpers, Juror
2010 Philip Shumaker Marine Award -Hudson Valley Art Association, National Arts Club, Nelson Shanks Juror
2010 First Place Oil - North River Arts Society, Stapleton Kearnes, Juror
2010 Honorable Mention Oil Painting, North River Arts Society, Joseph McGurl, Juror
2007 First Place Oil - North River Arts Society, Marcia Vose, Juror
2009 Regan Composition Award - North River Arts Society
2007 Koopman -Wyman Faculty Award - South Shore Art Center
2005 Award of Excellence - North River Arts Society
Notable Collections
Susan and David Rockefeller, Jr
Graham Gund
Martha Stewart
Thomas Hughes, Chief Designer and Co-founder of Idealab, Designed original Apple© logo
Acadia National Park
Solo, Invitational & Select Juried Exhibits
2017 Solo Show “Lit” Newburyport Art Association
2016 Newburyport Art Association Regional Show
2016 Solo Show “Theory of Shiny Things” South Street Gallery
2015 The Art of Teaching - Newburyport Art Association
2015 Big Works - Newburyport Art Association
2015 Winter Juried Show - Newburyport Art Association
2009 Solo Show - “Northeast Landscapes” - Dolphin Gallery
2009 Watershed - South Shore Art Center
2009 Semi Solo Show- “Plein Air Paintings” - Duxbury Art Complex Museum
2007 New Paintings - Palmer Gallery
2007 Major/Minor - South Shore Art Center
2006, 2008 Selected Finalist - North River Arts Society Calendar
2005 New Paintings - South Street Gallery
2005 New Work - South Shore Art Center
2004 Solo Show - “Under the Open Sky’ - James Library Gallery
2001 to 2014 - North River Arts Society Festival of the Arts, Juried Show
Professional
2019-2023 Juror, Acadia National Park, Artist-in-Residence
2015 - 2019 Advanced Oil Painting Newburyport Art Association, Byfield Community Arts Center
2002 - 2015, Instructor, Advanced Oil Painting North River Arts Society
2006 - 2013, Member Arts Committee, North River Arts Society
2010 Juror, Weymouth Art Association Annual Members Exhibit
2009 Juror, Kingston Art Association Annual Members Exhibit
2008 Juror, Scituate Art Association annual Members Exhibit
2007 Curator, DarkLight, Invitational Exhibit, Atlantic Symphony Orchestra & North River Arts Society