Spring 2004
Susan Hazard Fine Art
Spring Update
Painting
Seminar in
Ireland
Oils with palette knife workshop in lovely County Sligo is scheduled for
Friday, 30th April & Saturday, 1 May 2004.
Openings are limited.
Contact Betty Taylor at Taylor Gallery to sign up for this fun opportunity exploring painting in oils with palette knives!
If in Ireland, contact Betty Taylor at : (071) 9165138
Or contact Susan Hazard- susan.hazard@att.net for information.
*Please note the dates have changed from the winter newsletter announcement.
What’s Going On?
Travels are commencing once again! I am off to Ireland and Great Britain in late April, and early May for three weeks. During this time I will be teaching the palette knife with oils workshop in County Sligo, and also installing an exhibit of my oil paintings at the Princes Arms Country House Hotel in Trefriw, North Wales. The Princes Arms Hotel is located in
Trefriw, in the scenic Conwy Valley, close to the world-class Bodnant Garden. The gardens are on my list of “must see” places whenever I visit there, and walks in the woods around the wonderful hotel inspired a painting for the exhibit: spring blooming bluebells. After the show is installed in the hotel, I am off to southwest England, to see Cornwall.
Happy travels to you wherever you go!
-To be continued,
when I return!
Water-Based Paint
Painting
Workshop in
Santa Barbara
One-day water-based paint workshop in Santa Barbara is scheduled for Saturday, 22 May 2004.
This is a great class for beginner and intermediate level painters.
Openings are limited.
A future class will be offered in oil painting with palette knives. This class will be for intermediate and advanced painters.
Contact Susan Hazard for information.. All proceeds are to benefit the Parsonage Fund at the Church of the Comforter in Santa Barbara.
“Life is a garden, and most poor folks are still in the concrete jungle!”
Yes, I am paraphrasing Auntie Mame, but I am allowing myself a bit of “artistic” license! Gardens are a wonderful source of color, and color is what my paintings are all about. I began to paint in oils with palette knives after I moved to Westport, County Mayo, Ireland. I shipped my tabletop etching press to Ireland (including parts of the heavy metal contraption as my carry-on luggage...those were the days!) I fully intended to continue drawing and etching. I soon found the materials needed were difficult to locate, and soon I was searching for another art medium to satisfy
my need to create. I loved the shifting light of the countryside, but the silvery skies made me yearn for even brighter colors. I found the colors I yearned for in the lovely gardens around me. The vibrant garden colors inspired me to use every color I could lay my hands on, and I have been painting gardens ever since. Nature’s colorful and lively bounty is my inspiration and excuse for lovely, life-affirming color! Searching for garden color is also a wonderful excuse to travel, so gardens, here I come!
The more color, the more life!
Susan Hazard giclee’ prints are produced from professional photographs of the paintings, and are professionally printed in small editions by Mounier Giclee’ in Morro Bay, California. The art reproduction prints are printed on 100% cotton, acid-free watercolor paper, using only archival inks to obtain a print capturing the essence of the original painting. Each print is titled, hand signed and numbered by the artist. The editions do not exceed 250 prints, and are not reproduced in any other form, increasing their singular value.
Your giclee’ print, with proper care and handling, will last for generations. As with all works on paper, frame under glass and never display in strong ultraviolet light.
Affordable, beautiful, enjoyable...giclee’ prints!
Look
for our Giclee’ Print catalog
in the Summer Newsletter!
