Suzanne lives in Guilford, Connecticut, and travels the New England coast, taking long walks in search of ideas for compositions. Her distilled vision of the landscape includes relationships between figures, structures, land, sea, and sky, with an emphasis on light and atmosphere. She makes drawings and smaller works on location, and completes larger works in her studio.
Suzanne is a teacher at the Guilford Art Center and Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme and in the summer also holds outdoor watercolor workshops in Connecticut. She exhibits throughout the Northeast, in solo and group exhibitions and is currently represented by the Mulford Gallery in Rockland, Maine, Artspace Flatfile in New Haven, CT, and Lupine Gallery in Monhegan, Maine. Her works are included in the Collections of the Guilford Free Library, Guilford, CT, the Permanent Collection, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and Private Collections in North America and Europe.
“My subject is the language of light
through the language of painting. I
arrange shapes for interactions of
pigments in fluid washes against
untouched paper, or I layer and build
up the image with many transparent
layers, often leaving shards of brilliant
paper between shapes. With soft pastels,
the process is somewhat different, but I
work toward the same goal of having
shapes, values, and colors interact
in surprising and visually compelling
ways.”
—Suzanne Siegel
Suzanne Siegel, MFA